Thorsten Jonsson (1910–1950) was a Swedish writer, journalist and translator. Jonsson grew up in a small village in

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. He studied at Stockholms högskola and then worked as journalist for various newspapers, including ''

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''. In 1943 he became ''Dagens Nyheters''

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in United States. A selection of his articles as a correspondent were published in the book ''Sidor av Amerika'' in 1946. Jonsson was praised for his translations of American writers like

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and John Steinbeck and wrote several essays on contemporary American literature. Six studies were published in the book ''Sex amerikaner: Hemingway,

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, Steinbeck, Caldwell,

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'' in 1942. As a writer he published two books of poems, two short story collections and the acclaimed novel ''Konvoj'', published in 1947. ''Dimman från havet'', a book of four stories set in America, an essay collection and his collected short stories were published posthumously.

Bibliography

*Utflykt, 1933 *Stor-Norrland och litteraturen, 1938 *Som ett träd, 1939 *Som det brukar vara, 1939 *Martin Koch, 1941 *Fly till vatten och morgon, 1941 *Sex amerikaner: Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Farrell, Saroyan, 1942 *Sidor av Amerika: Intryck och resonemang, 1946 *Konvoj, 1947 *Dimman från havet, 1950 *Synpunkter, 1951 *Noveller, 1955 *Berättelser från Amerika, 2007 ;Translations (selected) *

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Citadellet (The Citadel), 1938 *

Att ha och inte ha (To Have and Have Not), 1939 * John Steinbeck Vredens druvor (The Grapes of Wrath), 1940 *Ernest Hemingway Klockan klämtar för dig (For Whom the Bell Tolls), 1940 * Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, 1942 *Ernest Hemingway Snön på Kilimandjaro och andra noveller (The Snows of Kilimanjaro), 1942 *

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Avlöning vid Savannah River (Savannah River Payday), 1942 *John Steinbeck Den långa dalen (The Long Valley), 1943 *John Steinbeck Månen har gått ned (The Moon is Down), 1943 * Dylan Thomas En varm lördag (One Warm Saturday), 1943 *

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poems, included in Sidor av Amerika, 1946 *Mörk sång: Fyrtiofem amerikanska negerdikter (anthology of afroamerican poetry), 1949

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