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Erik Lindegren

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Erik Lindegren

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1910-08-05 （Luleå）
Died
1968-05-31 （Hedvig Eleonora parish） age 57
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Residence History
Luleå

Career

Occupations
Poet, Writer, Critic, Librettist
Active Years
1942-1968
Affiliations
Swedish Academy
Memberships
Swedish Academy (Seat 17, 1962-1968), Nobel Committee in Literature (1964-1968)
Influenced By
Gunnar Ekelöf

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mannen utan väg

1942 Poetry

Surreal 'shattered sonnets' poetry collection, a breakthrough work of its generation and central to fyrtiotalism literature.

ModernismSurrealism

Sviter

1947 Poetry

Poetry collection 'Suites'.

Vinteroffer

1954 Poetry

Poetry collection 'Winter Sacrifice'.

Aniara

1959 Opera libretto

Libretto for Karl-Birger Blomdahl's space opera Aniara.

Translations by Author

  • Translated works of T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Graham Greene, Saint-John Perse, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, Paul Claudel, and others into Swedish.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Lyric modernismSurreal shattered sonnetsFyrtiotalism
Recurring Motifs
MusicOperaVisual arts

Health

  • Pancreatic cancer
    1968年頃
    Cause of death.

Legacy

Prominent exponent of lyric modernism in Sweden, member of the Swedish Academy.

Trivia

  • Grandson of composer Johan Lindegren.
  • Led the literary magazine Prisma between 1948 and 1950.