Edita Morris

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Edit (Edita) Dagmar Emilia Morris, née Toll (5 March 1902 - 1988), Swedish-American writer.

Edita Morris was born in Örebro, grew up in Stockholm, and married the journalist and writer Ira Victor Morris (1903-1972), whose father, Ira Nelson Morris, served as a U.S. diplomat in the Swedish capital.

She is mostly known for her novel The flowers of Hiroshima (1959). The novel was partly influenced by the experiences of her son, Ivan Morris, later known a japanologist, as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy visiting Hiroshima immediately after the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city. The book has been translated into 39 languages.

With her husband, who came from a wealthy family background, she founded a hospital in Hiroshima. After her death, the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture, usually known as the Hiroshima Prize, was established.