SWEDISH POETS
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Indra By August Strindberg
DOWN to the sand-covered earth. Straw from the harvested fields soiled our feet; Dust from the high-roads, Smoke from the cities, Foul-smelling breaths, Fumes from cellars and kitchens, All we endured. Then to the open sea we fled, Filling our lungs with air, Shaking our wings, And laving our feet. Indra, Lord of the Heavens, Hear us! Hear our sighing! Unclean is the earth; Evil is life; Neither good nor bad Can men be deemed. As they can, they live, One day at a time. Sons of dust, through dust they journey; Born out of dust, to dust they return. Given they were, for trudging, Feet, not wings for flying. Dusty they grow-Lies the fault then with them, Or with Thee?
Biography written by Moldoveanu Andrei Colegiul National Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Galati, Romania
Biography Research Sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Strindberg
August Strindberg
Early Life: 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912 Uppsala University in January 1870 to study aesthetics and modern
Family Life Strindberg was married three times Siri von Essen 77-91 Frida Uhl 93–95
He had 5 daughters and 1 son
Interesting Facts: Alchemy, occultism, Swedenborgianism, and various other eccentric interests were pursued by Strindberg with some intensity for periods of his life.
Works In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas After his disenchantment with naturalism, Strindberg had a growing interest in transcendental matters Debit and Credit (1892), Facing Death (1892), Motherly Love (1892), and The First Warning (1893)
End of life: Strindberg became sick with pneumonia and he never recovered completely. He also started to suffer from a stomach cancer. He died on 14 May 1912 at the age of 63.
Biography Research(Sources) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1974/martinson/poetry/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Martinson
Poet’s name: (Sweden)
Harry Martinsson Photo / portrait
Early Life: -date of birth: 6 May 1904 place: Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden At a young age he lost both his parents where after he was placed as a foster child In the age of 16 he started working as a sailor travelling all over the world but after some health problems he stopped travelling and working and at times he was living as a vagabond (even arrested for vagrancy) on the country roads.
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Family Life He was married to Moa, another Swedish writer for 11 years (1929-1940) but were divorced due to her criticism of his lack of political commitment.Moa became a writer and Harry married Ingrid Lindcrantz He had no children
Date and place of death: 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm Cause of death:cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors in what has been described as a "hara-kiri-like manner"(suicide). Burial place: Silverdal, Sollentuna – north of Stockholm
3 Interesting Facts: His popular success as a novelist came with the semi-autobiographical Nässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettles) in 1935, about hardships encountered by a young boy in the countryside. One of his most noted works is the poetic cycle Aniara, which is a story of the spacecraft Aniara that during a journey through space loses its course and subsequently floats on without destination. -He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1934 Together with Artur Lundkvist, Gustav Sandgren, Erik Asklund and Josef Kjellgren he authored the anthology Fem unga (Five Youths), which introduced Swedish Modernism.He was a member of the Academy when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1974 for which he had hard criticism that he could not stand and had as a result his suicide.
Summary: Harry Martinson was a Swedish author, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos".
Works His first book of poetry, Spökskepp (“Ghost Ship”), much influenced by Rudyard Kipling’s Seven Seas, appeared in 1929. His early experiences are described in two autobiographical novels, Nässlorna blomma (1935; Flowering Nettle) and Vägen ut (1936; “The Way Out”), and in original and sensitive travel sketches, Resor utan mål (1932; “Aimless Journeys”) and Kap Farväl (1933; Cape Farewell). Among his best-known works are Passad (1945; “Trade Wind”), a collection of poetry; Vägen till Klockrike (1948; The Road), a novel that sympathetically examines the lives of tramps and other social outcasts; and Aniara (1956; Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space), an epic poem about space travel that was turned into a successful opera in 1959 by Karl Birger Blomdahl. Martinson’s language is lyrical, unconstrained, innovative, and sometimes obscure; his imagery, sensuous; his style, often starkly realistic or expressionistic; and his philosophy, primitivism (source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Martinson)
The electrons
Elektronerna
With their round dance the electrons spin
Elektronerna spinner med sin ringdans
chrysalises of that which abides,
förblivandets puppor,
the inmost cocoons
de innersta kokongerna
which do not open of their own accord
som inte självmant öppnar sig
but are of that which abides.
emedan de är förblivandets.
There it is not a matter of hatching out.
Det gäller där inte att kläckas utåt.
There it is a matter of tending and protecting
Där gäller det att vakta och bevara
the metamorphoses of the inmost
det inres metamorfoser,
deeper-down swaying,
de djupare svängande
the innermost playing of women in dance.
innersta danserskornas lek.
By Harry Martinson
Av Harry Martinson
From Dikter om ljus och mörker, 1971
Ur Dikter om ljus och mörker, 1971
Translated by Stephen Klass
Publicerad med tillstånd av Eva Martinson
Published with the permission of Eva Martinson
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August Strindberg (Sweden) Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. The Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof, in 1872; it was not until 1881, at the age of thirty-two, that its première at the New Theatre gave him his theatrical breakthrough. In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas that – building on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made play – responded to the call-to-arms of Émile Zola's manifesto "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) and the example set by André Antoine's newly established Théâtre Libre (opened 1887). In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasized. Strindberg modeled his short-lived Scandinavian Experimental Theatre (1889) in Copenhagen on Antoine's theatre and he explored the theory of Naturalism in his essays "On Psychic Murder" (1887), "On Modern Drama and the Modern Theatre" (1889), and a preface to Miss Julie, the last of which is probably the best-known statement of the principles of the theatrical movement.
August Strindberg (Sweden) During the 1890s he spent significant time abroad engaged in scientific experiments and studies of the occult. A series of psychotic attacks between 1894 and 1896 (referred to as his "Inferno crisis") led to his hospitalization and return to Sweden. Under the influence of the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, he resolved after his recovery to become "the Zola of the Occult". In 1898 he returned to play-writing with To Damascus, which, like The Great Highway (1909), is a dream-play of spiritual pilgrimage. His A Dream Play(1902) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with its radical attempt to dramatize the workings of the unconscious by means of an abolition of conventional dramatic time and space and the splitting, doubling, merging, and multiplication of its characters â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was an important precursor to both expressionism and surrealism. He also returned to writing historical drama, the genre with which he had begun his play-writing career. He helped to run the Intimate Theatre from 1907, a small-scale theatre, modeled on Max Reinhardt's Kammerspielhaus, that staged his chamber plays (such as The Ghost Sonata).
We Waves WE, we waves, That are rocking the winds To restâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Green cradles, we waves! Wet are we, and salty; Leap like flames of fireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wet flames are we: Burning, extinguishing; Cleansing, replenishing; Bearing, engendering. We, we waves, That are rocking the winds To rest!
Indra DOWN to the sand-covered earth. Straw from the harvested fields soiled our feet; Dust from the high-roads, Smoke from the cities, Foul-smelling breaths, Fumes from cellars and kitchens, All we endured. Then to the open sea we fled, Filling our lungs with air, Shaking our wings, And laving our feet.
Indra, Lord of the Heavens, Hear us! Hear our sighing! Unclean is the earth; Evil is life; Neither good nor bad Can men be deemed. As they can, they live, One day at a time. Sons of dust, through dust they journey; Born out of dust, to dust they return. Given they were, for trudging, Feet, not wings for flying. Dusty they growâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lies the fault then with them, Or with Thee?
August Strindberg (Sweden)
22 January 1889. 14 may 1912
Biography written by Valentin Bernadoy
Biography research
Sources :Wikipédia= https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Strindberg , LaRousse= https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/August_Strindberg/145332, https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/august-strindberg/
August Strindberg
Early life He was born on 22 january 1849 in Stockholm(Sweden) He worked as an assistant in a chemistry workshop at the University of Lund in southwestern Sweden. He was also a painter, photographer and telegraphist.
Family Life His Father ‘s name was Carl Oscar , and his mother’s Ulrika Eleonora Strindberg and he had a son whose name was iHans and a daughter Karin He married Frida Uhl
3 Interesting Facts:
Works He was a writer and one of the most important Swedish authors and one of the fathers of modern theater “We who meet a few short moments,children of the same earth and the same miracle,on the stormy peninsula of our life!Are we going to leave indifferent and without love?The same loneliness awaits us all,the same painful murmur on the grass of the grave.”
He wrote ‘’Julie’’ He wrote a tragic drama ‘’FATHER’’
End of life: Strindberg died of cancer in 1912 May 14, 1912, Stockholm, Sweden
Biography written by Patricia Molero and Adrián Alanís Sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Boye#/media/File:Karin_Boye,_1940s.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Boye http://www.karinboye.se/verk/dikter/index-en.shtml
KARIM BOYE Boye was born in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems. During her time in Uppsala and until 1930, Boye was a member of the Swedish Clarté League, a socialist group which was at the time strongly anti-Fascist.
First she was married to Leif Björck and later she had a lesvian relationship with Gunnel Bergström.
-The best-known is the poem "Dead Amazon"
Clouds A Buddhist Fantasy The Nightjar To a Sphinx Idea Evening Prayer Crossroads The Best Morning Song Early Spring A Painter's Wish To an Unknown Descendant Dedication Distrust In the Dark Compelled To the Shadow of a Reality The two Lineages
-A literary association dedicated to her work was created in 1983, keeping her work alive by spreading it among new readers -She had a lesbian relationship
Boye committed suicide on 23 April 1941.
Biography research Resources: www.wikipedia.org / www.nobelprize.org
Tomas Tranströmer
Early life Tranströmer: * was born in Stockholm on April 15, 1931 and raised by his mother Helmy, a schoolteacher, after her divorce from his father, Gösta Tranströmer, an editor. * received his secondary education at the Södra Latin Gymnasium in Stockholm, where he began writing poetry. * continued his education at Stockholm University, graduating as a psychologist in 1956 with additional studies in history, religion and literature.
Family life
Tomas Tranströmer: * married Monika Bladh and They have two daughters, Emma and Paula. * The family lived in Västerås for 35 years. * worked as a psychologist at the Roxtuna center for juvenile offenders while writing. * was employed by a government agency providing rehabilitation for a wide variety of people who had fallen out of working life.
Tomas Tranströmer:
Facts * Won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1990 * won the Nobel prize for literature in 2011. * was acknowledged as Sweden`s greatest living poet. * was translated into more than 60 languages.
End of life Tomas Tranströmer:
*died in Stockholm on 26 March 2015. * was buried in Katarina Kyrkogard, Stockholm, Sweden.
Works Tomas Tranströmer:
* His first work is 17 poems in 1954. * The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, 2001. * Mörkerseende, 1970 (Night Vision, 1972) * Sanningsbarriären, 1978 (Truth Barriers, 1984) * Den stora gåtan, 2004 (The Great Enigma, 2006) One of Tranströmer poems:
The blue house It is night with glaring sunshine. I stand in the woods and look towards my house with its misty blue walls. As though I were recently dead and saw the house from a new angle. It has stood for more than eighty summers. Its timber has been impregnated, four times with joy and three times with sorrow. When someone who has lived in the house dies it is repainted. The dead person paints it himself, without a brush, from the inside. On the other side is open terrain. Formerly a garden, now wilderness. A still surf of weed, pagodas of weed, an unfurling body of text, Upanishades of weed, a Viking fleet of weed, dragon heads, lances, an empire of weed. Above the overgrown garden flutters the shadow of a boomerang, thrown again and again. It is related to someone who lived in the house long before my time. Almost a child. An impulse issues from him, a thought, a thought of will: “create. . .draw. ..” In order to escape his destiny in time. The house resembles a child’s drawing. A deputizing childishness which grew forth because someone prematurely renounced the charge of being a child. Open the doors, enter! Inside unrest dwells in the ceiling and peace in the walls. Above the bed there hangs an amateur painting representing a ship with seventeen sails, rough sea and a wind which the gilded frame cannot subdue. It is always so early in here, it is before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. I am grateful for this life! And yet I miss the alternatives. All sketches wish to be real. A motor far out on the water extends the horizon of the summer night. Both joy and sorrow swell in the magnifying glass of the dew. We do not actually know it, but we sense it: our life has a sister vessel which plies an entirely different route. While the sun burns behind the islands.
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