Gunnar Ekelöf
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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 a honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958.
He won a number of prizes for his poetry. He might have been considered for a Nobel Prize, but since he was a member of the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Laureates, such a nomination might have been considered a conflict of interest. His death in 1968 resolved that conflict, as Nobel's Will only allows living persons to be nominated.
[edit] Selected works
- sent på jorden (1932)
- Hundra år modern fransk dikt (1934)
- Fransk surrealism (1933)
- Dedikation (1934)
- Sorgen och stjärnan (1936)
- Köp den blindes sång (1938)
- Färjesång (1941)
- Promenader (1941)
- Non serviam (1945)
- Utflykter (1947)
- Om hösten (1951)
- Strountes (1955)
- Blandade kort (1957)
- Opus incertum (1959)
- En Mölna-elegi (1960)
- Valfrändskaper (1960)
- Lägga patience (1969)
- En natt i Otowac (1961)
- Diwán över Fursten av Emgión (1965)
- Sagan om Fatumeh (1966)
- Vägvisare till underjorden (1967) (Guide to the Underworld, trans. Rika Lesser)
- Partitur (1969)
- En självbiografi (1971)
- En röst (1973)
- Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf, translated by Muriel Rukeyser ahd Leif Sjöberg, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967)
[edit] Source
- Nationalencyklopedin (2004). Gunnar Ekelöf. Retrieved August 29, 2004.
[edit] External links
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