Eva Ulla Nina Burton (born 5 October 1946) is a Swedish poet and essayist.

Career

Burton's writings have, among other things, focused on the intersection between

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

and

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

. The essay book '' Den nya kvinnostaden'' was nominated for the

August Prize The August Prize ( sv, Augustpriset) is an annual Swedish literary prize awarded each year since 1989 by the Swedish Publishers' Association. The prize is awarded to the best Swedish book of the year, in three categories. Prize In the years 1989- ...

in 2005. Her book ''Flodernas bok'' won Stora fackbokspriset in 2012. In 2016 Burton was awarded the

for non-fiction for '' Gutenberggalaxens nova''. She was nominated to the culture prize of Dagens Nyheter in 2021 for her book ''Livets tunna väggar.'' She has been a member of the

Samfundet De Nio 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 ...

literary society since 1994 and a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

since 2009.

Works

*1984 – ''Mellan eld och skugga. Studier i den lyriska motsägelsen hos Werner Aspenström'' *1987 – ''Bakom den gröna dörren'' *1988 – ''Den hundrade poeten'' *1991 – ''Alkemins blå eld'', tillsammans med Saleh Oweini *1994 – ''Resans syster, poesin'' *1998 – ''Det splittrade alfabetet'' *2000 – ''De röda minustalen'' (diktsamling) *2002 – ''Det som muser viskat'' *2005 – '' Den nya kvinnostaden'' *2008 – ''Ett svar i 24 skärvor'' *2012 – ''Flodernas bok'' *2016 – '' Gutenberggalaxens nova: En essäberättelse om Erasmus av Rotterdam, humanismen och 1500-talets medierevolution'' *2020 – ''Livets tunna väggar'' *2022 –
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Awards

*2006 – Gerard Bonniers essäpris *2007 – Aspenströmpriset *2007 – Gun och Olof Engqvists stipendium *2007 – Letterstedtska författarpriset *2008 – Sorescupriset *2012 – Stora fackbokspriset *2016 –

for ''Gutenberggalaxens nova: En essäberättelse om Erasmus av Rotterdam, humanismen och 1500-talets medierevolution'' *2017 – Svenska Akademiens essäpris *2020 – Övralidspriset

References

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