Per Christian Jersild, better known as ''P. C. Jersild'', (born 1935) is a

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author and physician. He also holds an honorary

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from the Faculty of Medicine at

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from 22 January 2000, and another one in engineering from the

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(1999).

Biography

P. C. Jersild was born in

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in a middle-class family. His first book was ''Räknelära'' which he released 1960 at the age of 25, although he had already been writing for 10 years at that time. Until now he has written 35 books, usually focused on social criticism. His most famous work is ''Barnens ö'' (''Children's Island''), which tells the story of a young boy, on the verge of adulthood, who runs off from a children's summer camp to spend time alone in the big city,

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. Other notable books include ''Babels hus'' (''The House of Babel''), which gives an account of the inhuman treatment of patients at a large modern hospital, said to be modeled on the

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in Huddinge outside Stockholm, and the science fiction novel ''En levande själ'' (''A Living Soul''), about a living, thinking and feeling human brain floating in a container of liquid. Aside from his literary production, Jersild has also been a columnist for Dagens Nyheter since the mid-1980s. In 1999, he was elected a member of the

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Awards

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's Literary Prize 1973 *The Aniara Prize 1974 *The Kellgren Prize 1990 *" Samfundet De Nios stora pris" (''Society of the Nine's Grans Prize'') 1998 *Övralidspriset 2007 * Ingemar Hedenius Award 2007

Bibliography

* Räknelära, 1960 * Till varmare länder, 1961 * Ledig lördag, 1963 * Resa genom världen, 1965 *

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, 1966 * Prins Valiant och Konsum, 1966 *

Grisjakten Grisjakten (English: "The Pig Hunt"; "gris" = "pig", "jakt" = "hunt") is a 1970 Swedish film, made by Jonas Cornell after a 1968 novel by P. C. Jersild starring Hans Alfredsson and Keve Hjelm The film's genre is difficult to classify, it's an absu ...

, 1968 *

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, 1970 * Drömpojken, 1970 * Uppror bland marsvinen, 1972 * Stumpen, 1973 * Djurdoktorn, 1973 (''The Animal Doctor'', trans.

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& David M. Paul) *

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, 1974 *

Barnens ö ''Children's Island'' ( sv, Barnens ö) is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1980, directed by Kay Pollak, starring Thomas Fryk and Ingvar Hirdwall. It is based on the novel of the same name by P. C. Jersi ...

, 1976 (see also the

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) (''Children's Island'', trans.

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) *

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, 1978 (''House of Babel'', trans.

) *

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, 1980 (''A Living Soul'', trans.

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) * Professionella bekännelser, 1981 * Efter floden, 1982 (''After the Flood'', trans. George Blecher & Lone Thygesen Blecher) * Lit de parade, 1983 * Den femtionde frälsaren, 1984 * Geniernas återkomst, 1987 * Svarta villan, 1987 * Röda hund, 1988 * Ett ensamt öra, 1989 * Fem hjärtan i en tändsticksask, 1989 * En livsåskådsningsbok, 1990 * Alice och Nisse i lustiga huset, 1991 * Holgerssons, 1991 * Röda hund, 1991 * Hymir, 1993 * En gammal kärlek, 1995 * Ett gammal kylskåp och en förkyld hund, 1995 * Sena sagor, 1998 * Darwins ofullbordade: Om människans biologiska natur, 1999 * Ljusets Drottning, 2000 * Hundra Fristående Kolumner i Dagens Nyheter, 2002 * Ypsilon, 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jersild, Per Christian 1935 births Living people 20th-century Swedish novelists 21st-century Swedish novelists Swedish-language writers 20th-century Swedish physicians Karolinska Institute alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Selma Lagerlöf Prize winners Dobloug Prize winners Litteris et Artibus recipients Swedish male novelists