Aris Fioretos

Aris Fioretos (2014)

Aris Fioretos ( Greek Άρης Φιορέτος , born February 6, 1960 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish writer and translator of Austro-Greek origin.

Life

Aris Fioretos was born in Sweden in 1960 to a Greek father and an Austrian mother. He studied comparative literature at Stockholm University , at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and at Yale University . The doctorate took place in 1991, the habilitation in 2001.

Fioretos published his first literary work in 1991. His subsequent books have been translated into several languages - including German, English, French, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian and Serbian. It was introduced to German readers in 1995 in the literary magazine Akzente . In 2011 the novel The Last Greek caused a stir. Fioretos has also translated several books, including by Paul Auster , Friedrich Hölderlin , Vladimir Nabokov , Walter Serner , Peter Waterhouse and Jan Wagner . He has received numerous prizes and grants, including from the Getty Center , the Swedish Academy , the DAAD's Berlin Artists Program, the American Academy in Berlin and All Souls College, Oxford University .

Since 1997 Fioretos has lived as a freelance writer in Stockholm and Berlin . From 2004–2007 he was counselor for cultural issues at the Swedish embassy in Berlin. Since 2010 he has been professor of aesthetics at the Södertörn University of Applied Sciences near Stockholm. In the same year he was appointed a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and then elected one of the three vice-presidents. 2011–2014 he held the Dag Hammarskjöld visiting professorship at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin. On July 16, 2010, Fioretos' contribution to one of Sweden's most popular radio programs, Sommar ("Summer"), a series of self-portraits of known and unknown Swedes, aired.

Works

Fiction

Delandets bok (prose, 1991)
Vanitasrutinerna (prose, 1998)
Stockholm noir (Roman, 2000); revised version as Irma, 25 (2019)
- German as: The soul seeker . Translation Paul Berf . Dumont Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5352-9
Sanningen om Sascha Knisch (novel, 2002); revised version (2019)
- German as: The truth about Sascha Knisch . Translation Paul Berf. Dumont Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7828-7
Den siste greken (Roman, 2009)
- German as: The last Greek . Translation Paul Berf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23633-2
Halva solen (prose, 2012)
- German as: Half the sun . Translation Paul Berf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24121-3
Mary (novel, 2015)
- German as: Mary . Translation Paul Berf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25270-7
Nelly B: s hjärta (novel, 2018)
- German as: Nelly B's heart. Translation Paul Berf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26560-8
Atlas (prose, 2019)

Essays

Den grå boken (essay, 1994)
- English as: The Gray Book . Translation by the author. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1999
En bok om fantomer (Essay, 1996).
Skallarna , with Katarina Frostenson (essay, 2001)
- German as: My black skull . Translation Paul Berf. DAAD artist program, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89357-108-6
Vidden av en fot (essays, short
stories, poems, aphorisms, 2008)
- German as: The measure of a foot . Translation Paul Berf. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23056-9

Avtalad tid , Conversations with Durs Grünbein (2012).

German as: appointments . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42388-2

Vatten, gåshud (essay, 2016).

German as: water, goosebumps . Translation Paul Berf. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25657-6

Scientific work

Det Kritiska ögonblicket: Hölderlin, Benjamin, Celan (1991)

Flykt och förvandling ( pictorial
biography, 2010)
- German as: Flight and Metamorphosis. Nelly Sachs, writer, Berlin / Stockholm . Translation Paul Berf. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42159-8

As editor

Word Traces: New Readings of Paul Celan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin (Stanford University Press, 1999)
Re: the Rainbow (Propexus, 2004)
Berlin above and below ground. Alfred Grenander , the subway and the culture of the metropolis . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89479-344-9
Babel. Festschrift for Werner Hamacher . Engeler Verlag, Weil am Rhein 2009, ISBN 978-3-938767-55-9
Paul Celan - Poems . Selection and afterword by Aris Fioretos. With etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-22461-8