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Anders Ehnmark (born June 2, 1931 in Linköping ; † March 29, 2019 ) was a Swedish journalist and writer .

life and work

Anders Ehnmark grew up in an academic family. While still studying humanities, which he graduated from Uppsala University in 1960 , he began writing for the daily Expressen . Among other things, he worked in the journal's culture department and as a correspondent in Rome and Kiruna . At the beginning of the seventies he switched to the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå for a year . Later he was employed by the politically left-wing magazine Folket i Bild / Kulturfront , but mostly worked as a freelance journalist. Since 1995 he has been a regular employee of the Expressen again .

In parallel to his publications in the press, he published reports in book form on, among other things, Cuba , Angola and Guinea-Bissau , which received a lot of attention in Sweden. His books on Niccolò Machiavelli (1986), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1999) and Antonio Gramsci (2005) have earned him the reputation of being one of the best essayists in his country. As a left-wing thinker, he played an important role in the political opinion-forming process in Sweden for five decades.

Ehnmark also became known through his cooperation with the writer Per Olov Enquist . The two friends wrote several plays together, such as Chez nous (1976). In their joint novel, Doktor Mabuses nya testamente (1982; German title: Mann im Pool / Doktor Mabuse's new testament), Ehnmark and Enquist paint a critical and satirical picture of the Swedish welfare state .

Anders Ehnmark was married to the journalist Anna Hagström since 1976. He has received several awards for his work, including a. with the Övralidpriset (2002) and the Essay Prize of the Swedish Academy (2010). In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Gothenburg .

bibliography

Original editions (selection)

  • Angola 1962
  • Cuba cubana 1963
  • Report från det röda Emilien 1969
  • Copied Guinea-Bissau 1973
  • Chez nous 1976 (Co-author: Per Olov Enquist)
  • Mannen på trottoaren 1979 (Co-author: Per Olov Enquist)
  • Palate set 1979
  • Ögonvittnet 1980
  • Doktor Mabuses nya testamente 1982 (Co-author: Per Olov Enquist)
  • Arvskifte 1983
  • Maktens hemligheter 1986
  • Slottet 1990
  • Rättvisa och makt 1992
  • Resan till Kilimanjaro 1993
  • Tre essäer om befrielse och frihet 1994
  • Minnets hemlighet 1999
  • Frihetens rike 2001
  • Krigsvinter 2002
  • En stad i ljus 2005

Translations

  • Man in the pool. A detective novel from the end of the century . Translated from the Swedish by Verena Reichel. von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1985. ISBN 3-547-72337-X [Doktor Mabuses nya testamente].
  • Doctor Mabuse's New Testament . Translated from the Swedish by Verena Reichel. Neuer Europa-Verlag, Leipzig 2007. ISBN 978-3-86695-826-5 [Doktor Mabuses nya testamente].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ familjesidan.se , obituary notice on familjesidan.se, accessed on August 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Ehnmark bit för bit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Expressen, February 11, 2007@1@ 2Template: dead link / www.expressen.se  
  3. ↑ See Svenska Akademiens essäpris ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Svenska Academies, May 7, 2010 (on the occasion of the award of the essay prize to Ehnmark)

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personal data
SURNAME Ehnmark, Anders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkoping
DATE OF DEATH 29th March 2019