''Ebba'' Helfrid ''Lindqvist'' -Galéen (April 7, 1908 in Oscar Fredrik parish, Gothenburg, grew up in Grebbestad – September 5, 1995 in

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), was a Swedish writer (poet). She studied for a

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and became a

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at Göteborg upper secondary school for girls. Married in 1933 with business school graduate Ivar Galéen and eventually had three children. Poetry critic at Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning (Gothenburg, Trade and Shipping Gazette) from 1949 to 1956. In Grebbestad, Tanum Municipality has established the memorial garden ''Ebba Lindqvist's Place'' with a bust by Per Agelii.

Career

Her debut was in 1931 with the collection of poems ''Jord och rymd'' (Earth and Space), but her real breakthrough came with ''Fiskläge'' (The Fishing Village, 1939) depicting life in the Bohuslän archipelago. In 1939 Lindqvist's husband and then Ebba Lindqvist herself with their two children moved to New York. They dared not stay in

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during

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, as her husband was of

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descent. Lindqvist's impressions of New York were recorded in ''Manhattan'' in 1943 and in the short story collection ''Vägen till Jeriko'' (The Road to Jericho) 1946. After the war the family moved back to Gothenburg and had their third child. After a few years they left Sweden again, since her husband was placed overseas in his work. They lived a while in

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and then in

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. In 1958 the poetry collection ''Karavan'' was published, with designs from the Near East. In 1964 ''Resa mellan fyra väggar'' (Journey between four walls) came out, whose motifs are largely taken from the Bible. The last collection of poems, ''Mässa för måsar'' (Mass for Gulls) appeared in 1966. Many of Ebba Lindqvist's

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have been set to music. Composer

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's ''Sinfonia del mare'' is built around his setting of Lindqvist's poem ''Det enda.'' Other

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who have set Lindqvist's poems to

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are Torsten Sörenson, Ake Hermansson, Alfred Janson, Maurice Karkoff,

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, Hilding Hallnäs, Martin Bagge, Vivan Myhrwold Lassen and Henrik Mossberg. She was married 1934-1985 to Ivar Henrik Adolf Galéen, born 1909, and had three children: Anne-Marie, married Blom, born 1934, Monica Galéen, born 1936, and Ivar Henrik Andreas Galéen, born in 1947.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

*''Jord och rymd'' (Earth and Space) (1931) *''Lava'' (1933) *''Liv'' (Life) (1934) *''Lyrisk dagbok'' (Lyrical Diary) (1937) *''Fiskläge'' (Fishing village) (1939) *''Röd klänning'' (Red Dress) (1941) *''Manhattan'' (1943) *''Labyrint'' (Labyrinth) (1949) *''Sången om Fedra'' (The Song of Phaedra) (1952) *''De fåvitska jungfrurna'' (The Foolish Virgins) (1957) *''Karavan'' (1958) *''Lökar i november'' (Bulbs in November) (1963) *''Resa mellan fyra väggar'' (Journey Between Four Walls) (1964) *''Mässa för måsar'' (Mass for Gulls) (1966)

Short story collection

*''Vägen till Jeriko'' (The Road to Jericho) (1946)

Together with other authors

*In 1987 Ebba Lindqvist and three other authors collaborated on the poetry collection ''Lyriskt partitur för 4 stämmor'' (Lyrical Score for 4 Voices) ().

Collections

Warne publishing house published ''Hon som älskade havet. Samlade dikter av Ebba Lindqvist'' (She Who Loved the Sea. The Collected Poems of Ebba Lindqvist) in 1997, which contains all of Lindqvist's 14 collections of poetry. The second edition of the book also includes a brief

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of Ebba Lindqvist written by Birgitta Ivarson Bergsten ().

Awards and honours

*1949: The magazine Ny Tid's Culture Prize (together with Gösta Nystroem) *1970: The Bellman Prize *1970: The Ferlin Prize *1970: Gothenburg and Bohus County Council's Cultural Prize *1970: The authors' Culture Prize (awarded by the Swedish Writers' Association) *1986: Tanum Municipality's Culture Prize, ''"for her significant literary artistry, especially for the already classic poems of the Bohuslän archipelago, with a background in the Grebbestad environment she grew up in and constantly returned to."''

External links

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