Erik Lindegren
Erik Lindegren (5 August 1910 – 31 May 1968) was a Swedish author, poet, critical writer and member of the Swedish Academy (1962–68, chair 17). Grandson of composer Johan Lindegren. Lindegren was born in Luleå, Norrbotten County, the son of a railway engineer.
Erik Lindegren
- Born
- 1910. · Luleå.
- Died
- 1968. · Hedvig Eleonora parish.
- Nationality
- Sweden.
- Occupation
- translator, librettist, poet, newspaper editor, writer and critic.
- Honours
- Dobloug Prize, Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize, Östersunds-Postens litterature price and Signe Ekblad-Eldh Award.
- Languages
- Swedish.
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His poetry books include the surreal "shattered sonnets" in mannen utan väg ("The Man Without a Way", title without capital M; 1942, a breakthrough work of its generation and a central work in fyrtiotalism literature), Sviter ("Suites", 1947) and Vinteroffer ("Winter Sacrifice", 1954). He translated the works of T. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Graham Greene, Saint-John Perse, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, Paul Claudel and many others into Swedish. He took a keen interest in music, opera and the visual arts, and was an accomplished opera librettist at the Royal Swedish Opera, and also an informed and enthusiastic opera critic. Lindegren wrote the libretto for Karl-Birger Blomdahl's space opera Aniara among others. Between 1948 and 1950 he led the literary magazine Prisma, one of the most lavish and broad ever produced in Sweden, aiming to "gauge the state of the arts in the present". Lindegren was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1962 and a member of the Academy's Nobel committee between 1964 and 1968. He died from pancreatic cancer in 1968.
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Erik Lindegren lived from 5 August 1910 to 31 May 1968 and is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Erik Lindegren was born on 5 August 1910 in Luleå, Sweden and died on 31 May 1968 in Stockholm.
Erik Lindegren is recorded as translator, librettist, poet, newspaper editor and writer.
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1910
Erik Lindegren born at Luleå.
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Luleå.
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Hedvig Eleonora parish.
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Erik Lindegren received Dobloug Prize, Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize, Östersunds-Postens litterature price and Signe Ekblad-Eldh Award.
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Lindegren, Erik, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020
An Assessment, Books Abroad, 1975
Lindegren, Erik: Das lyrische Werk, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020
Nelly Sachs’ Swedish exile – An encounter with Erik Lindegren, La conquête de la langue, 2013
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- 1.Britannica Book of the Year 1969, covering events of 1968, (published 1969), "Obituaries 1968" article, item on "Lindegren, (J.) Erik", page 574
- 2.Svenska Akademien. Ledamotsregister.
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