Annika Idström

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Ilse Annika Idström ( November 12, 1947 in Helsinki - September 20, 2011 there ) was a Finnish writer and dramaturge .

Life

Idström came from a Finnish-Swedish family but wrote in Finnish . After graduating from high school in 1968, she began studying film and television dramaturgy at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, which she graduated in 1974. In 1976/1977 she was the managing director of the traditional writers' association Nuoren Voiman Liitto . From 1984 to 1986 she taught Finnish language and literature at the University of Minnesota . Among other things, she worked as a photographer and journalist and as a freelance director and dramaturge for the Finnish television YLE before she decided to become a freelance writer. She has written radio and television plays and translated novels and poems from Norwegian and Danish into Finnish. She gained greater fame and recognition as a writer since the 1980s with her novels, which have been translated into several languages. The most important of her five novels are Mein Bruder Sebastian and Die Liebe um Uns , which were published in German by Volk und Welt and as paperbacks by Rowohlt and made them known in Germany at the beginning of the 1990s. Both books were eligible for the Finlandia Prize . The novel My Brother Sebastian , which portrays the adult world from the child's perspective of the main character, the boy Antti, caused a scandal when it appeared in Finland due to the radical nature of its portrayal of a broken childhood.

Idström was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Literature in 1985 and the " Pro Finlandia Medal " in 1994. In 1998 she received a state scholarship for literature for five years.

She was married to director Jotaarkka Pennanen from 1967 to 1975 and was the mother of a daughter. Idström died in a hospice in Helsinki after a long illness of pancreatic cancer .

Works

  • Nuori Minna Canth (The Young Minna Canth ) (radio play, 1975)
  • Sinitaivas (sky blue) (novel, 1980)
  • Isäni, rakkaani (My father, my lover) (novel, 1981)
  • Veljeni Sebastian (novel, 1985)
  • Kirjeitä Trinidadiin (Letters to Trinidad) (Novel, 1989)
  • Muistoja Caprilta (Memories of Capri) (1993)
  • Luonnollinen ravinto (natural food) (novel, 1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in Aamulehti , September 20, 2011 ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Rowohlt Verlag's blurb
personal data
SURNAME Idström, Annika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Idström, Ilse Annika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2011
Place of death Helsinki