List of Swedish poets
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Swedish
poets, including those who are Swedish by nationality or who write in the Swedish language
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Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
poets, including those who are Swedish by nationality or who write in the Swedish language
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
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- Sun AxelssonSun AxelssonSun Axelsson, was a Swedish poet, novelist, translator and journalist.- Life :Axelsson was the youngest daughter of the master gardener Karl Edvin Axelsson and Mignon Axelsson...
(born 19351935 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...
), poet, novelist, translator and journalist - Arvid August AfzeliusArvid August AfzeliusArvid August Afzelius was a Swedish pastor, poet, historian and mythologist.From 1828 till his death he was parish priest of Enköping...
(17851785 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Reverend Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate after the refusal of William Mason-United Kingdom:...
–18711871 in poetry— From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking GlassNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:...
), pastor, poet, historian and mythologist - Sofia AhlbomSofia AhlbomSofia Carolina Ahlbom , was a Swedish drawing artist, engraver, lithographer, photographer, map maker, writer, poet and feminist....
- Catharina AhlgrenCatharina AhlgrenCatharina Ahlgren was a Swedish feminist writer, poet, translator, managing editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden. She is also known for her correspondance with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. Ahlgren was a leading person in the "Female literary world of the 1750-...
(17341734 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, A Rap at the Rhapsody * Jean Adam, Miscellany Poems...
– c. 18001800 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward...
), feminist writer, poet, translator, editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden - Per AhlmarkPer AhlmarkPer Axel Ahlmark is a Swedish writer and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978...
(born 19391939 in poetry— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Last issue of The Criterion is published....
), writer and former leader of the Liberal People's Party - Dan AnderssonDan AnderssonDaniel "Dan" Andersson was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. Andersson married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918...
(18881888 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*William Wilfred Campbell, Snowflakes and sunbeams. St. Stephen, NB: St. Croix Courier Press. Published at author's expense....
–19201920 in poetry— Opening and closing lines of The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), - Kurt AlmqvistKurt AlmqvistKurt Almqvist , PhD in Romance Languages, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure, representative of the Traditionalist School and the Perennial philosophy. Almqvist was a life-long disciple of the Swiss metaphysician and spiritual guide Frithjof Schuon. He came into close contact with the...
(19121912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...
–20012001 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, W. H...
), poet, academic and spiritual figure - Werner AspenströmWerner AspenströmKarl Werner Aspenström was a Swedish poet.Born at Norrbärke, he was a member of the Swedish Academy, where he held Seat 12 from 1981 to 1997....
(19181918 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...
–19971997 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration....
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- Albert Ulrik BååthAlbert Ulrik BååthAlbert Ulrik Bååth was a Swedish poet and author, often seen as A.U. Bååth. He was a senior lecturer in Old Norse literature at Göteborgs högskola from 1881 until 1911. He was the brother of Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg....
(18531853 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools...
–19121912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...
) - Johan Arendt Bellman (16641664 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Bold, Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique...
–17091709 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...
) - Frans G. Bengtsson (18941894 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Yellow Book, published 1894–97...
–19541954 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review...
) - Bengt BergBengt BergBengt Magnus Kristoffer Berg was a Swedish ornithologist, zoologist, wildlife photographer, and writer....
(18851885 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.-United Kingdom:...
–19671967 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....
) - Bo BergmanBo BergmanBo Bergman was a Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy, sitting in Seat 12 from 1925 until his death...
(18691869 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 * C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse* A. H...
–19671967 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK....
) - Marcus BirroMarcus BirroMarcus Birro is a Swedish-Italian poet, author and columnist at Sveriges Radio. Birro also blogs at Expressen and is a presenter on SR Östergötland, where he is the host of Karlavagnen on Sveriges Radio P4. He is the brother of author Peter Birro...
(born 19721972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate...
) - Erik BlombergErik BlombergErik Blomberg was a Finnish cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He was married to actress Mirjami Kuosmanen.-External links:...
- Carl BobergCarl BobergCarl Gustav Boberg was a Swedish poet, writer, and elected official, best known for writing the Swedish language poem of "O Store Gud" from which the English language hymn "How Great Thou Art" is derived....
(18591859 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes:** Hwomely Rhymes ** The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect...
–19401940 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
) - Karin BoyeKarin Boyewas a Swedish poet and novelist.- Career :Boye was born in Gothenburg , 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, "Clouds"...
(19001900 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In February, Myōjō , a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan. between February 1900 and November 1908...
–19411941 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*September 3 — 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator, flew a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards wrote "High Flight" about the experience, on...
) - Sophia Elisabet BrennerSophia Elisabet BrennerSophia Elisabet Brenner was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess, and was regarded in her country as a pioneer in each of these fields.- Biography :...
(16591659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....
–17301730 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English, Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C...
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- Christina Charlotta CederströmChristina Charlotta CederströmChristina Charlotta Cederström was a Swedish Dilettante artist, salon hostess, and baroness. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and the French Académie des Beaux-Arts....
- Siv CederingSiv CederingSiv Cedering was an award-winning Swedish-American poet, writer, and artist. She occasionally published as Siv Cedering Fox.-Early life:...
(19391939 in poetry— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Last issue of The Criterion is published....
–20072007 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding...
) - Samuel Columbus (16421642 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was...
–16791679 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the late Civil War...
) - Gustaf Filip Creutz (17311731 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The only complete manuscript of Beowulf and the original manuscript of The Battle of Maldon are damaged in a fire at the archives of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.* The Gentleman's Magazine is started and...
–17851785 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Reverend Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate after the refusal of William Mason-United Kingdom:...
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- Gunno Eurelius Dahlstierna (16611661 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"...
–17091709 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...
) - Olof von DalinOlof von DalinOlof von Dalin was a Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier. He was an influential literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment.-Background:...
(17081708 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member...
–17631763 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In 1763, Charles Churchill's fellow poet and friend, Robert Lloyd was in Fleet Prison for debt...
) - Mathilda Valeria Beatrix d'OrozcoMathilda d'OrozcoMathilda Valeria Beatrix d'Orozco also by marriage known as Cenami, Montgomery-Cederhjelm and Gyllenhaal, , was a Swedish noble and salonist, composer, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordists...
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- Johannes EdfeltJohannes EdfeltBo Johannes Edfelt , was a Swedish writer, poet, translator and literary critic.A native of Tibro, Edfelt was elected to be a member of the Swedish Academy in 1969, occupying seat No. 17...
(19041904 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre....
–19971997 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration....
) - Vilhelm EkelundVilhelm EkelundVilhelm Ekelund was a Swedish poet.The works of Ekelund were influenced by Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emanuel Swedenborg...
(18801880 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* H.C. Beeching and J.W...
–19491949 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...
) - Gunnar EkelöfGunnar EkelöfGunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958...
(19071907 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems* Robert W...
–19681968 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 when founder Philip Hobsbaum left for Glasgow, is reconstituted this year by...
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- Nils FerlinNils Ferlinwas a Swedish poet.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands-Tidningen newspaper. In 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and Nils' father started his own paper...
(18981898 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-The "Generation of '98" in Spain:...
–19611961 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20–Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at United States President John F...
) - Lars ForssellLars ForssellLars Hans Carl Abraham Forssell was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Forssell was a versatile writer who worked within many genres, including poetry, drama and songwriting. He was married from 1951 until his death to Kerstin Hane, and was the father of Jonas and Malte...
(born 19281928 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Russian poets Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky found OBERIU , an avant-garde grouping of Russian post-Futurist poets in the 1920s-1930s* American poets Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Louis...
) - Jacob Frese (16911691 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Richard Ames:** The Female Fire-Ships: A satyr against whoring, published anonymously...
–1729) - Katarina FrostensonKatarina FrostensonKatarina Frostenson is a Swedish poet and writer. She was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1992. In 2003, Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in recognition of her services to literature....
(born 19531953 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L...
) - Gustaf FrödingGustaf FrödingGustaf Fröding was a Swedish poet and writer, born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad....
(18601860 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo* Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics-United Kingdom:...
–19111911 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ; British Library ; National Library of Scotland ; National Library of...
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- Gunnar D. HanssonGunnar D. HanssonGunnar D. Hansson, born in 1945 on the island Smögen in Sweden, is an author, poet, essayist, translator and associate professor of literature at Göteborg University...
- Verner von HeidenstamVerner von HeidenstamCarl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was a Swedish poet and novelist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912...
(18591859 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes:** Hwomely Rhymes ** The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect...
–19401940 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
) - Urban Hiarne (16411641 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie, a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year ; five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other...
–17241724 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated...
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- Lars JohanssonLars JohanssonLars Johansson may refer to:* Lars Johansson , also known as Lucidor, Swedish baroque poet* Lars Johansson , member of the Riksdag* Lars Johansson , lead guitarist of Swedish doom metal band Candlemass...
(16381638 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Henry Adamson, Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Edinburgh, noted for giving a general description of Perth in the 17th century; published with the encouragement...
–16741674 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:...
) - Majken JohanssonMajken JohanssonMajken Johansson was a Swedish poet, writer and a Salvation Army soldier.Majken Johansson was born out of wedlock in Malmö, and spent her childhood in foster care with an abusive foster mother. At the age of 9, she was evacuated from Malmö at the outbreak of World War II and lived with relatives...
- Gabriel JönssonGabriel JönssonGabriel Jönsson was a Swedish author and poet, best known for his works inspired by Öresund and farming.- Gabriel Jönsson :...
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- Erik Axel KarlfeldtErik Axel KarlfeldtErik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919.Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's...
(18641864 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Canada:* Charles Heavysege:** The Owl ** The Dark Huntsman -United Kingdom:...
–19311931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...
) - Greta KnutsonGreta KnutsonGreta Knutson or Knutson-Tzara was a Swedish modernist visual artist, art critic, short story writer and poet. A student of André Lhote who adopted Abstraction, Cubism and Surrealism, she was also noted for her interest in phenomenology...
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- Olof LagercrantzOlof LagercrantzOlof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz was a Swedish writer, critic, literary scholar and publicist . The son of bank director Carl Lagercrantz and Countess Agnes Hamilton, he married Martina Ruin , daughter of Professor Hans Ruin and Karin Sievers, in 1939...
- Pär LagerkvistPär LagerkvistPär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s...
(18911891 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891–93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B...
–19741974 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman....
) - Stig LarssonStig LarssonStig Larsson is a retired Swedish ice hockey player. Larsson began playing hockey in Nacka SK, but joined Djurgårdens IF where he played until he ended his career. He was part of Sweden's 1972 World Championship team that won bronze. Larsson became team captain for the 1976–77 season. He was...
- Oscar LevertinOscar LevertinOscar Ivar Levertin was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet...
(18621862 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, on returning home with Algernon Charles Swinburne after a night on the town, finds his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, dead on the floor from an oversose of laudanum...
–19061906 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems* Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets...
) - Sven LidmanSven LidmanSven Lidman is the name of:*Sven Lidman , clergyman, antiquarian and orientalist, dean of the cathedral of Linköping*Sven Lidman , writer, leading member of the Pentecostal movement in Sweden...
- Erik LindegrenErik LindegrenJ. Erik Lindegren was a Swedish author, poet, critical writer and member of the Swedish Academy . Grandson of composer Johan Lindegren....
- Ebba LindqvistEbba LindqvistEbba Helfrid Lindqvist -Galéen , born April 7, 1908, in Oscar Fredrik parish, Gothenburg, grew up in Grebbestad, dead 5 September 1995 in Varberg, was a Swedish writer . She studied for a Master's degree in Uppsala and became a Swedish teacher at Göteborg upper secondary school for girls...
- Kristina LugnKristina LugnGunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn is a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy. She was born in Tierp, Uppland and was raised in Skövde, Västergötland, and after finishing her academic education she has devoted her time to poetry, as literary critic and a playwright. Since 1972...
- Artur LundkvistArtur LundkvistArtur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968....
(19061906 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems* Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets...
–19911991 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Forward Poetry Prize created...
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- Bertil MalmbergBertil MalmbergBertil Frans Harald Malmberg was a Swedish author, poet, and actor. He was born in Härnösand to Teodor Malmberg and Hanna Roman...
(18891889 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* William Wilfred Campbell, Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Canada:* William Wilfred Campbell, Nationality...
–19581958 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities...
) - Tom MalmquistTom MalmquistTom Malmquist is the ice hockey player who becomes a critically acclaimed Swedish poet, musician and songwriter.In the year of 2007 his first poetry book Sudden Death was released, praised by the critics as the first sports dedicated poetry book in Sweden ever. The debut book reflects Malmquist’s...
- Harry MartinsonHarry MartinsonHarry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. 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. The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson was very controversial as both were on the...
(19041904 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre....
–19781978 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published...
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- Charlotta ÖbergCharlotta ÖbergCharlotta Öberg known as Lotta Öberg, was a Swedish poet.Born in poverty as the child of a lumberman and a cleaning woman, she was not able to work for a living because of her bad health. She educated herself by reading the school books of a neighbour's son...
(1818–1856) - Bruno K. ÖijerBruno K. ÖijerBruno Keats Öijer is a renowned contemporary Swedish poet. His first collection of poems Sång för anarkismen was published in 1973....
(born 19511951 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Poet Cid Corman began Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically featured one writer per issue and ran, with breaks, until the...
) - Mohamed Omar محمد عمر (born 19761976 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1-Works published in English:Listed by nation where the work...
), Arabic-language poet in Sweden - Mathilda Valeria Beatrix d'OrozcoMathilda d'OrozcoMathilda Valeria Beatrix d'Orozco also by marriage known as Cenami, Montgomery-Cederhjelm and Gyllenhaal, , was a Swedish noble and salonist, composer, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordists...
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- Sigfrid Siwertz (18821882 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Allingham, Evil May-Day...
–19701970 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7...
) - Östen SjöstrandÖsten SjöstrandÖsten Sjöstrand was aSwedish poet, writer and translator. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1975.-Biography:...
(19251925 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank....
–20062006 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon...
), poet, writer and translator - Georg StiernhielmGeorg StiernhielmGeorg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna...
(15981598 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:*Richard Barnfield:** The Encomium of Lady Pecunia; or, The Praise of Money** Poems in Divers Humours...
–16721672 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Le Mercure galant was founded in France by Donneau de Visé...
) - Eva StrömEva StrömEva Ström is a Swedish lyricist, novelist, biographer and literary critic. She made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Den brinnande zeppelinaren...
(born 19471947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....
) - Jesper SvenbroJesper SvenbroJesper Svenbro is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.Svenbro was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics...
(born 19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
), poet and classical philologist - Hjalmar SöderbergHjalmar SöderbergHjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur...
(18691869 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 * C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse* A. H...
–19411941 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*September 3 — 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator, flew a high-altitude test flight in a Spitfire V and afterwards wrote "High Flight" about the experience, on...
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- Tomas TranströmerTomas TranströmerTomas Gösta Tranströmer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War...
(born l 19311931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...
), writer, poet and translator - Samuel Triewald (16881688 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After John Dryden refused to swear allegiance to the new government after James II of England was deposed, the writer was dismissed as poet laureate of England, to be replaced by his old enemy,...
–17431743 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Blair, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement* Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph...
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- Gunnar WennerbergGunnar WennerbergGunnar Wennerberg , Swedish poet, composer and politician. His niece Sara Wennerberg-Reuter was also a well-known musician; she was an organist and composer....
- Jacques WerupJacques WerupJacques Werup, born January 14, 1945 in Malmö, is a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter. Werup's poetry is often associated to jazz. He was a childhood friend of Mikael Wiehe and Göran Skytte and had his first novel published in 1971...
- Lars Wivallius (16051605 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton:** The Honour of Valour** The Soules Immortall Crowne...
–16691669 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir John Denham, Cato Major of Old Age, a verse paraphrase of Cicero's De senectute...
) - Beppe WolgersBeppe WolgersJohn Bertil "Beppe" Wolgers was a Swedish author, poet, translator, lyricist, actor, entertainer and artist.Wolgers was born in Stockholm...