- Gunnar Ekelöf
Gunnar Ekelöf (
Stockholm ,September 15 ,1907 -Sigtuna ,March 16 ,1968 ) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of theSwedish Academy from 1958. He was also awarded a honorary doctorate in philosophy byUppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.Gunnar Ekelöf has become described as Sweden's first surrealistic poet, after he debuted with the poetry collection "sent på jorden" in 1932, a work that was too unconventional to become widely appreciated. "Lundkvist, Martinsson, Ekelöf", by Espmark & Olsson, in Delblanc, Lönnroth, Göransson, vol 3] But Ekelöf moved towards
romanticism and got better reviews for his second poetry collection "Dedikation" in 1934. A work that became influential for later Swedish poets was his "Färjesång" in 1941, a finely expressed blend of romanticism, surrealism, and the dark clouds of the ongoing war.elected 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", miscellanaeus (1971)
* "En röst" "A Voice" (1973)*Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf, translated by Muriel Rukeyser ahd Leif Sjöberg, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967)
ource
*
Nationalencyklopedin (2004). [http://www.ne.se/jsp/search/article.jsp?i_art_id=159910 Gunnar Ekelöf] . Retrieved August 29, 2004.References
External links
* [http://hem.passagen.se/ekeloef/ The Gunnar Ekelöf society homepage] (in Swedish)
* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ekelo.htm Biography of Gunnar Ekelöf]
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