Britt Arenander (born 1941) is a
Swedish
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translator, writer and journalist.
Life
She was born in
Stockholm
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and was educated at
Södra Flickläroverket. She trained as a journalist during the 1960s. Arenander published a series of novels ''Steget'' in 1968, ''Off'' in 1969 and ''Alla broar brända'' in 1971. In 1974, she published her first collection of poetry ''Dröm om verkligheten utanför Stockholm och andra dikter''. She has also written radio plays. During the 1990s, she worked as a translator of French and English literature into Swedish, including much of
Anais Nin's diaries. She has also contributed to various anthologies including ''Liv och kärlek: om kvinnor av kvinnor'' and ''Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors''.
She served as press officer for the Secretariat of the Swedish branch of
Amnesty International
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. She was also international secretary for the Swedish
PEN
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club.
Arenander married
Gustav Wiklund
Gustav Adolf Fingal Wiklund (26 June 1934 – 27 August 2019) was a Finnish actor. He has appeared both in theatrical and film roles, in Swedish and Finnish language. He was born in Helsinki. He worked at the Lilla Teatern in Helsinki in 1960– ...
in 1964. The couple separated in 1973.
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Selected works
* ''Affären som inte fanns'' Stockholm: Alba, 1982, ,
* ''Lorenzas dagbok'' Stockholm: Alba, 1990, ,
* ''Anaïs Nins förlorede värld'' Stockholm: Trevi, 1995, ,
** ''Anais Nin's Lost World'' Gaithersburg, MD : Sky Blue Press, 2017, ,
References
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1941 births
Living people
Swedish translators
Swedish women novelists
Swedish women poets
Swedish journalists