| Gunnar Ekelöf | |
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| Born | 15 September 1907 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 16 March 1968 (aged 60) Sigtuna, Sweden |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Sweden |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Notable work(s) | Non Serviam, Diwan on the King of Emgion |
Gunnar Ekelöf (Stockholm, September 15, 1907 - Sigtuna, March 16, 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.
Gunnar Ekelöf has been described as Sweden's first surrealist poet, after he debuted with the poetry collection sent på jorden in 1932, a work that was too unconventional to become widely appreciated. [1] But Ekelöf moved towards romanticism and received better reviews for his second poetry collection Dedikation (1934). Färjesång (1941), a finely expressed blend of romanticism, surrealism, and the dark clouds of the ongoing war, would influence later Swedish poets.
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Selected works
- Sent på jorden "Late on Earth", poems (1932)
- Fransk surrealism "French Surrealism", translations (1933)
- Dedikation "Dedication", poems (1934)
- Hundra år modern fransk dikt "100 Years of Modern French Poetry", translations (1934)
- Sorgen och stjärnan "The Sorrow and the Star", poems (1936)
- Köp den blindes sång "Buy the Blind Man's Song", poems (1938)
- Färjesång "Ferrysong", poems (1941)
- Promenader "Walks", essays (1941)
- Non serviam "Non Serviam", poems (1945)
- Utflykter "Excursions", essays (1947)
- Om hösten "In Autumn", poems (1951)
- Strountes "Nonsense", poems (1955)
- Blandade kort "Shuffled Cards", essays (1957)
- Opus incertum "Opus Incertum", poems (1959)
- En Mölna-elegi "A Mölna-Elegy", poem (1960)
- Valfrändskaper "Elective Affinities", translations (1960)
- En natt i Otocac "A night in Otocac", poems (1961)
- Diwan över Fursten av Emgión "Diwan on the King of Emgion", poems (1965)
- Sagan om Fatumeh "The Tale of Fatumeh", poems (1966)
- Vägvisare till underjorden poems (1967) (Guide to the Underworld, trans. Rika Lesser)
- Partitur "Partiture" poems (1969)
- Lägga patience essays (1969)
- En självbiografi "An Autobiography", miscellaneous (1971)
- En röst "A Voice" (1973)
- Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf, translated by Muriel Rukeyser ahd Leif Sjöberg, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967)
Source
- Nationalencyklopedin (2004). Gunnar Ekelöf. Retrieved August 29, 2004.
References
- ^ Lundkvist, Martinsson, Ekelöf, by Espmark & Olsson, in Delblanc, Lönnroth, Göransson, vol 3
External links
| Preceded by Bertil Malmberg |
Swedish Academy, Seat No.18 1958-1968 |
Succeeded by Artur Lundkvist |
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