Madeleine Gustafsson
Illustration — Madeleine Gustafsson in 2017 Dagmar Helena Madeleine Gustafsson (born 2 July 1937) is a Swedish writer, translator and literary critic. She also has an honorary doctorate from University of Gothenburg. Gustafsson has worked as a literary critic for various newspapers including Dagens Nyheter.
Also recorded as Dagmar Helena Madeleine Gustafsson
Madeleine Gustafsson
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- 1937 · Gothenburg.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- translator · poet · writer · screenwriter · critic
- Education
- Uppsala University
- Honours
- Dobloug Prize · Swedish Academy translation prize · John Landquist Prize · Tegnérpriset
- Languages
- Swedish
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Her translations have included works by Marguerite Duras and Marcel Proust. In addition to essay collections, she has also published poetry. In 2013, she was awarded the Swedish Academy's Translation Prize. Gustafsson was also one of the three screenwriters behind the film Skyddsängeln (1990) which appeared in English as The Guardian Angel.
• Utopien och dess skugga: studier i samtida fransk idédebatt (Norstedt, 1978) • Med andras ögon: om böcker mest (LiberFörlag, 1978) • Solida byggen: poetry (Norstedt, 1979) • Vattenväxter: poetry (Norstedt, 1983) • Berättelsens röst: från Bernhard till Yourcenar (Norstedt, 1991) • Att skriva om böcker (Tegnérsamfundet, 1993) • Fång-lada (poesi) (Norstedt, 1993)
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Madeleine Gustafsson, recorded as a critic, author, translator and screenwriter, was born on 2 July 1937 in Göteborg. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
A picture of Samfundet De Nio (The Nine Society) taken at the Gothenburg Book fair 2013. L_R: Niklas Rådström, Agneta Pleijel, Madeleine Gustafsson, Johan Svedjedal, Nina Burton, Kerstin Ekman, Gunnar Harding, Inge Jonsson.
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