Ulla Isaksson; Novelist, Bergman Scriptwriter

Ulla Isaksson, 83, author on women’s issues who penned two scripts for Ingmar Bergman films. Isaksson, whose first novel, “The Tree,� was published in 1940, scripted Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring� in 1960 and “Brink of Life� in 1958. Among her other novels were “Paradise Square,� “The Women’s House� and “The Birthday.� With her late husband, Erik Hjalmar Linder, she wrote a two-part biography of Swedish novelist Elin Wagner that is considered the foremost work on the feminist writer. After Linder’s death in 1994, Isaksson wrote “The Book About E� about him. The Swedish literary society De Nio, to which she belonged, last year awarded Isaksson $11,400 for her “penetrating, clear and bold depiction of women’s reality.� On Monday in Stockholm.