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Selma Lagerlöf Prize
The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in 1983 and has been awarded annually since 1984. Recipients receive 100,000 Swedish kronor. The awards ceremony takes place in Sunne every August 13 and is in honor of Selma Lagerlöf. List of recipients *1984 – Birgitta Trotzig *1985 – Sara Lidman *1986 – Astrid Lindgren *1987 – Göran Tunström *1988 – Lars Ahlin *1989 – Kerstin Ekman *1990 – Lars Andersson *1991 – Lars Gyllensten *1992 – Tove Jansson *1993 – Georg Henrik von Wright *1994 – Stig Claesson *1995 – Ulla Isaksson *1996 – Rolf Edberg *1997 – Per Olov Enquist *1998 – Göran Palm *1999 – Kristina Lugn *2000 – Torgny Lindgren *2001 – Agneta Pleijel *2002 – Peter Englund *2003 – P. C. Jersild *2004 – Sigrid Combüchen *2005 – Birgitta Stenber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914. Life Early years Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, Värmland, Union between Sweden and Norway, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment, and Louise Lagerlöf (''née'' Wallroth), whose father was a well-to-do merchant and a foundry owner (). Lagerlöf was the couple's fifth child out of six. She was born with a Hip dysplasia (human), hip injury, which was caused by detachment in the hip joint. At the age of three and a half, a sickness left her lame in both legs, alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Edberg (author And Politician)
Rolf Arne "Råttan (The Rat)" Edberg (born 29 September 1950) is a retired Swedish ice hockey player. After playing in Sweden for many years, Edberg signed as a free agent with the Washington Capitals The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. The team competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL) .... After playing three seasons with the Capitals, Edberg returned to Sweden where he played for several more years before retiring. Edberg should not be confused with his namesake, the well-known Swedish journalist, author, member of parliament and ambassador Rolf Edberg. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edberg, Rolf 1950 births Living people AIK IF players Ice hockey people from Stockholm Swedish ice hockey centres Undrafted National Hockey League player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Lööf
Jan Lööf (born 30 May 1940 in Trollhättan) is a Sweden, Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician. Lööf studied at Konstfack in Stockholm in the early 1960s. From 1967 until 1973 he created his most famous comic strip Felix (comic book), ''Felix'', which soon gained popularity into many parts of the world. Mixing humor and adventure, ''Felix'' has sometimes been described as a more naivistic or Underground comix, underground style version of The Adventures of Tintin, ''Tintin'', in terms of the drawing style, but in its themes and morale it is also somewhat Left-wing politics, leftist. Later, Lööf created other comics, such as ''Bellmann (comic book), Bellman'' (a humor strip about a Stockholm hobo) and Ville (comic book), ''Ville'' (1975–76), a "comedic adventure" about an unemployed Stockholm author, teaming up with Olof Palme and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf to fight the bad guys. This was originally serialized in the Swedish periodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Erik Einar Gustafsson (17 May 1936 – 3 April 2016) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar. Among his awards were the in 2006, the Goethe Medal in 2009, the Thomas Mann Prize in 2015, and the International Nonino Prize in Italy in 2016. Life and career Gustafsson was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås Gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University, where he studied literature, aesthetics, sociology and philosophy. In 1960, he received a licentiate degree in philosophy. In 1978, he was awarded a PhD in theoretical philosophy with a dissertation on speech and literature. He later served for four years on the university's board of regents (1994-1998). Already by 1960 Gustafsson was publishing novels and poetry regularly. In addition to his literary work, he was editor-in-chief of the renowned literary journal ''Bonniers Litterära Magasin'' from 1962 to 1972 . He soon established international contacts, notably to the German authors i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist (; born 2 December 1968) is a Swedish writer of horror novels and short stories. Early life Lindqvist was born and raised in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg. Before becoming a published writer, Lindqvist worked for 12 years as a stand-up comedian, and also worked for a time as a magician. Career Lindqvist's debut novel, '' Let the Right One In'' (''Låt den rätte komma in''), a romantic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad. '' Handling the Undead'' (''Hanteringen av odöda'') was published in 2005 and involved the rising of the dead as zombies, referred to as the "re-living", in the Stockholm area. In 2006, he released his third book, ''Pappersväggar'' (''Paper Walls'', published in English as '' Let the Old Dreams Die''), a collection of short stories. In 2007, his story "Tindalos" was published as a serial in the Swedish newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'' and as a free audiobook available through the newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbro Lindgren
Barbro Lindgren (born 18 March 1937) is a Swedish writer of children's books and books for adult readers. For her lasting contribution as a children's writer, Lindgren was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Ten years later she won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The biggest cash prize in children's and young-adult literature, it rewards a writer, illustrator, oral storyteller, or reading promoter for its entire body of work. Life Barbro Enskog was born in Bromma, Stockholm. She graduated from art school in 1958 and has been writing books for publication since 1965. Her style has exerted a major influence on Swedish children's literature. Located between realism and surrealism, her works are humorous and imaginative, and her books for children treat important issues to be taken seriously and treated for children. Early in her career Barbro Lindgren won the 1973 Astrid Lindgren Prize, an annual Swedish literary award dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Jakobson
Lars Jakobson (1959, Lund) is a Swedish author. Among the awards he won are the Svenska Dagbladet book prize and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, both in 2006. (Swedish) For many years he lived in . Bibliography *''Vinterkvarteret'' (novel, 1985) *''Vetten'' (novel, 1986) *''Menageri'' (short stories, 1989) *''Pumpan'' (novel, 1991) *''Hemsökelser'' (short stories, 1994) *''Kanalbyggarnas barn'' (novel, 1997) *''I den Röda damens slott. En martiansk biografi'' (novel, 2000) *''Stjärnfall. Om sf'' (essays, 2003) (Co-written with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Stenberg
Birgitta Alma Sofia Stenberg (26 April 1932 – 23 August 2014) was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize. Life Birgitta Stenberg was born in Engelbrekt Parish in 1932. She was educated in Visby and finally in Paris. Stenberg spent a lot of time in southern Europe improving her language skills. In the early 1950s, she lived in Paris, Rome and on the French Riviera, experiences that inspired her book, ''Kärlek i Europa'' (''Love in Europe''), which detailed her various sexual adventures. The book was later translated into English as ''Manplay in Europe''. For a time, she was the mistress of the Mafiosi Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who had been deported from the United States back to his native Italy. Stenberg had been offered a job in New York by a travel agent who additionally added in a promise of a layover in Buenos Aires where she was to work temporarily as a model before going on to New York. The Mafiosi Luciano, who kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Combüchen
Sigrid Combüchen (born 16 January 1942) is a Swedish novelist, essayist, literary critic and journalist. Career Sigrid Combüchen was born in Solingen, Germany in the Ruhr territory. Shortly after the War her family moved to Sweden. Sigrid Combüchen made her debut at the age of eighteen with the novel (1960). She worked in journalism and on her academic degree before she returned to fiction seventeen years later with the novel (In Northern Europe) and then (Warmth) in 1980. Her first internationally renowned novel is ''Byron'', published in 1988. The book paints a picture of the English poet through a compositional change between present and past, where Byron is partly illustrated by a group of Byron enthusiasts of today and partly through the environment in his own time. It was translated into other languages including English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch the following years. Over a period of twenty years Combüchen has written three novels studying the change of me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Englund
Peter Mikael Englund (born 4 April 1957) is a Swedish author and historian. Englund writes non-fiction books and essays, often about the Swedish Empire and other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style, providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages, such as German and Czech. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2015, when he was succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019 Englund announced that he, and fellow academy member Kjell Espmark, would return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018. Biography Englund was born in Boden, Sweden, Boden and studied a preparatory course for the caring professions for two years and then humanistic subjects for another two years in secondary school. He was then conscripted and served 15 months in the Swedish Army at the Norrbotten Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel (born 1940) is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among her plays are ''Ordning härskar i Berlin'' from 1979. Among her novels are ''Vindspejare'' from 1987 and ''Drottningens chirurg'' from 2006. She has been a professor at Dramatiska Institutet since 1992. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize ( sv, Doblougska priset, no, Doblougprisen) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. T ... in 1991 and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2018. References 1940 births Living people 20th-century Swedish novelists 21st-century Swedish novelists Swedish women poets 20th-century Swedish dramatists and playwrights Swedish literary critics Women literary critics Swedish journalists Litteris et Artibus recipients Dobloug Prize winners 20th-century Swedish women write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer. Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith. Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel ''The Way of a Serpent'' (Swedish: ''Ormens väg på hälleberget''). Lindgren's work was translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991. ''The Way of a Serpent'' ''The Way of a Serpent'' tells the story of a farmer family in a poverty-stricken region in the northern parts of Sweden in the nineteenth century. The family formerly owned its land, but had to sell it cheap during a succession of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
