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Swedish Academy Finland Prize
The Finland Prize ( sv, Finlandspriset) is a literary award presented annually by the Swedish Academy since 1966. It is awarded to somebody that has done important activities for the Swedish language, Swedish-speaking culture in Finland. The amount was 100,000 crowns in 2007. Recipients * 1966 – Hagar Olsson * 1967 – Rabbe Enckell * 1968 – Georg Henrik von Wright * 1969 – Tito Colliander * 1970 – Solveig von Schoultz * 1971 – Bo Carpelan * 1972 – Tove Jansson * 1973 – Rabbe Enckell * 1974 – Olof Enckell * 1975 – Erik Ekelund * 1976 – Christer Kihlman * 1977 – Olav Ahlbäck * 1978 – Johannes Salminen * 1979 – Erik Tawaststjerna * 1980 – Lars Huldén * 1981 – Göran Schildt * 1982 – Oscar Nikula * 1983 – Erik Stenius * 1984 – Carl-Eric Thors * 1985 – Erik Allardt * 1986 – Torsten Steinby * 1987 – Kai Laitinen * 1988 – Claes Andersson * 1989 – Matti Klinge * 1990 – Ulla-Lena Lundberg * 1991 – Johan Wrede * 1992 – Tua Forsström * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Huldén
Lars Evert Huldén (5 February 1926 – 11 October 2016) was a Swedish-speaking Finn writer, scholar and translator. Born in Jakobstad, Finland, he was professor at Helsinki university 1964–1989. In 1986 Huldén received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1993. He has researched Carl Michael Bellman, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish dialects and toponomy. Lars Huldén and his son Mats Huldén translated ''Kalevala'' into Swedish in 1999. Huldén died at the age of 90 on 11 October 2016 in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Magnus Jansson
Jan-Magnus Jansson (24 January 1922 – 29 November 2003) was a Finnish politician, a member of the Swedish People's Party. Jansson studied at Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors and then at the University of Helsinki. Jansson was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki 1954–74 and chancellor for the Åbo Akademi University 1985 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Swedish People's Party (SPP) from 1966 to 1973 and a minister of trade and industry in Kalevi Sorsa's first government (1 January 1973 - 30 September 1974). Jansson was his party's presidential candidate in the 1982 elections and received 11 electoral votes. Jansson was also the editor-in-chief of ''Hufvudstadsbladet'' from 1974 to 1987. Jansson wrote several books, for instance about the Finnish Constitution, and some poetry works. In the 1990s, he was against the Finland's membership of European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tua Forsström
Tua Birgitta Forsström (born 2 April 1947) is a Finland-Swedish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection '' Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar''. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape, travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work, sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection ''After Spending a Night Among Horses'' () (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film '' Stalker'', they are placed as interludes in a sequence of pieces and sit alone on the page, without direct reference to their source on the page, leaving this to a Notes & Quotations section at the end of the book. She published her first book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Wrede
Johan Otto Wilhelm Wrede (born 18 October 1935) is a Finnish literary historian. He was born in Helsinki. He took his doctorate in 1965 and subsequently worked three years for the Humanist Commission. In 1968 he became a docent of Swedish literature at the University of Helsinki, advancing to professor already in 1969 and serving until 1995. Among his academic specialities were J. L. Runeberg. Wrede served as vice prorector of the University of Helsinki from 1983 to 1989, and was a board member of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland from 1967 to 2000, the last eight years as chairman. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive .... He was awarded the Swedish Academy Finland Prize in 1991. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla-Lena Lundberg
Ulla-Lena Lundberg (born 14 July 1947, Kökar, Åland) is a Finland-Swedish author living in Porvoo, Finland. Her Swedish-language books have been translated into several languages, including Finnish, Danish, German, Russian and Dutch. Biography Lundberg made her debut at age 15 with the poetry anthology in 1962. In 1964, she spent some time in the United States on a scholarship. She subsequently wrote of her experiences in the US. Lundberg also wrote a book about Japan after living there in 1968. Her breakthrough is generally considered to be the 1976 book , a factual account of the past and present of her island of birth, told through the stories of some of the islanders. She would later write two novels about the fictional Kökar native ''Anna'' in and .She would write extensively about Africa (the fictional , and and the factual ), having lived for two years in the African nations of Botswana, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. After obtaining her Master's degree in 1985 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Klinge
Matti Klinge (born August 31, 1936, Helsinki) is a Finnish historian. He studied at the University of Helsinki and gained his Ph.D. in 1969. He later served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1970–1972) and held the Swedish Professorship of History at the University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ... between 1975 and 2001. at the website of the Finnish publishing company Söderströms. Klinge is one of the most prolific Finnish historians. Notes See also ...
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Claes Andersson
Claes-Johan Rudolf Andersson (30 May 1937 – 24 July 2019) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish psychiatrist, author, poet, jazz musician, politician and member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Left Alliance and the Finnish People's Democratic League. He was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1987 to 1999 and from 2007 to 2008, and served as the Minister of Culture in the Lipponen I Cabinet The first cabinet of Paavo Lipponen was the 66th government of Finland, which existed from 13 April 1995 to 15 April 1999. The cabinet’s Prime Minister was Paavo Lipponen. It was a majority government, and one of the longest-running governments .... References External links *Parliament of Finland: Claes Andersson {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Claes 1937 births 2019 deaths Writers from Helsinki Finnish People's Democratic League politicians Left Alliance (Finland) politicians Government ministers of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1987–91) Members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Steinby
Thorsten (Thorstein, Torstein, Torsten) is a Scandinavian given name. The Old Norse name was ''Þórsteinn''. It is a compound of the theonym ''Þór'' (''Thor'') and ''steinn'' "stone", which became ''Thor'' and ''sten'' in Old Danish and Old Swedish. The name is one of a group of Old Norse names containing the theonym ''Thor'', besides other such as ''Þórarin, Þórhall, Þórkell, Þórfinnr, Þórvald, Þórvarðr, Þórolf'', most of which, however, do not survive as modern names given with any frequency. The name is attested in medieval Iceland, e.g. Þorsteinn rauður Ólafsson (c. 850 – 880), Þōrsteinn Eirīkssonr (late 10th century), and in literature such as '' Draumr Þorsteins Síðu-Hallssonar''. The Old English equivalent of the Scandinavian and Norman name is ''Thurstan'', attested after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century as the name of a medieval archbishop of York (died 1140), of an abbot of Pershore (1080s) and of an abbot of Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Allardt
''Erik'' Anders Allardt (9 August 1925 – 25 August 2020) was a Finnish sociologist. Allardt served as professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki between 1955 and 1991, and as chancellor of Åbo Akademi University between 1992 and 1994. He is one of the most well-known and internationally distinguished Nordic social scientists. In 1995, Allardt was awarded the honorary title of ''akateemikko''. He was born in Helsinki, and died there on 25 August, 2020. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ... from 1982. Allardt was the grandson of philologist Ivar Heikel. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Eric Thors
Carl-Eric may refer to: *Carl Eric Almgren General Carl Eric Åke Almgren (4March 1913 – 20May 2001) was a Swedish Army officer. Almgren served as Chief of the Defence Staff from 1961 to 1967, military commander of the Eastern Military District (Milo Ö) from 1967 to 1969 and ... (1913–2001), a Swedish Army general * Carl-Eric Björkegren (born 1920), a Swedish director, art collector, and businessman * Carl-Eric Bulow, a Swedish table tennis player * Carl Eric Stålberg (born 1951), a Swedish businessman * Carl-Eric Vanderborght (born 1951), a Belgian field hockey player See also * Karl-Erik {{Given name Swedish masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
