Jacques Werup (14 January 1945 – 12 November 2016) was a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter, born in
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
. Werup's poetry is often associated to
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
. He was a childhood friend of
Mikael Wiehe
Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the progg movemen ...
and
Göran Skytte and had his first novel published in 1971. He has co-written many songs with long-time collaborator and composer
Michael Saxell
Michael Saxell (born 1 October 1956) is a singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden but has spent many years on the Canadian west coast. He composed music for the Colin Nutley m ...
for various projects including Gör mig lite levande which is a CD and nationwide stage show with Swedish singer
Lill Lindfors
Maj Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors (born 12 May 1940) is a Swedish singer who has performed in Scandinavia since the 1960s.
Career
She was born in Helsinki, Finland, and made her debut as a revue actress in Uddevalla in 1960. The following year she ...
and En känsla av ljus, which is a concert Werup and Saxell wrote and performed with
Mats Ronander
Mats Ronander (born 1 April 1954 in Sundsvall, Sweden) is a Swedish rock musician, guitar player, producer and composer.
Biography
Ronander was born in Sundsvall, but grew up in Örebro. At the age of sixteen he succeeded Peps Persson as singer i ...
and
Benneth Fagerlund. Werup lived in
Ystad
Ystad (; older da, Ysted) is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates from the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre, and ...
.
In 1997 Werup got the
Ferlinpriset together with
Ola Magnell, and was 2003 awarded a scholarship by the Swedish Royal Academy. Was also awarded Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris in 1980.
Bibliography
*Returbiljett Polen (1971)
*Ett å... Två å... Tre å... Fyr! (1971)
*Streber (1972)
*Tiden i Malmö, på jorden (1974)
*Swiss Made (1975)
*Fläckar av liv (1977)
*Casanovas senare resor (1979)
*48 dikter från Österlen (1980)
*Hemstaden (1981)
*Den skräddarsydda sorgen (1982)
*L'heure bleue (1983)
*Shimonoffs längtan (1983)
*Mellan rotfrukt och måne (1983)
*Boulevarder och fågelsträck (interpretations) (1984)
*Vem är Nora Prentiss? (1984)
*Från dörren till hemligheten (1985)
*Handbagage (1986)
*Den sjungande kroppen (1986)
*Ett steg på de älskandes ö (tolkningar) (1986)
*Stjärnan i periferin (1987)
*Pornografens död (1988)
*Den elektroniska synden (1989)
*I ögonhöjd (1990)
*Septemberljus (1990)
*Den sjungande kroppen (prose version, with
Madeleine Pyk) (1986)
*Dikter (1991)
*42 minuter från Paris (1992)
*Det omvända skriket (interpretations) (1992)
*Ängeln på Rue de la Lune (Bonniers Christmas book) (1992)
*Aptiten och ledan (1994)
*Den ofullbordade himlen (1996)
*Det stora preludiet (1997)
*Människan är vem som helst (1998)
*Hemmavid (1999)
*Oldboy (2000)
*Herbarium (med Georg Oddner) (2000)
*Lev länge, dö ung (2001)
*Livet går fort, timmarna sakta (2001)
*Provliv 1–10 (2002)
*Hundra dikter (2005)
*Levande tillsammans (2006)
*Trötta mäns skönhet (2008)
*Medan jag levde (2011)
*Du har funnits här – poesi på liv och död (2015)
*Restaurangmusik (planned 2017)
In addition:
*Gör mig lite levande
*Ljudet av rullande stenar
*Året då natten var kort
Film scripts and TV scripts
*2001 –
Så vit som en snö
''As White as in Snow'' (Swedish title: ''Så vit som en snö'') is a Swedish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 16 February 2001, directed by Jan Troell. It won three Guldbagge Awards, for best film, best direction and best cinemat ...
*1972 –
N.P. Möller, fastighetsskötare
Prizes and awards
*
Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
*
PiratenPriset 1989
*
Lengertz litteraturpris 1991
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*
De Nios Vinterpris
Samfundet De Nio (''The Nine Society'' or ''Society of the Nine'') is a Swedish literary society founded on 14 February 1913 in Stockholm by a testamentary donation from writer Lotten von Kraemer. The society has nine members who are elected for ...
1996
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*
Ferlinpriset 1997
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*
De Nios stora pris
Samfundet De Nio (''The Nine Society'' or ''Society of the Nine'') is a Swedish literary society founded on 14 February 1913 in Stockholm by a testamentary donation from writer Lotten von Kraemer. The society has nine members who are elected for ...
2006
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See also
*
Gunnar Harding
Karl Gunnar Harding (born 11 June 1940) is a Swedish poet, novelist, essayist and translator, considered 'one of Sweden's foremost poets'. Among his other poetry collections is ''Starnberger See'' from 1977. Among his novels is ''Luffaren Svarta ...
References
External links
Albert Bonniers Förlag – Jacques WerupJacques Werup – profile at LIBRIS
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1945 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Swedish male writers
Swedish poets
Swedish screenwriters
Swedish male screenwriters
Musicians from Malmö
Swedish male poets
20th-century Swedish poets