Carina Burman

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Carina Burman (2007)

Carina Burman (* 1960 ) is a Swedish writer and literary scholar.

life and work

Carina Burman studied history, comparative literature , English and Scandinavian languages and wrote her doctoral thesis on the 17th century poet Johan Henrik Kellgren . Burman works as a lecturer in literature at Uppsala University .

A supplement to the dissertation is her historical novel Min salig bror Jean Hendrich (My blessed brother Jean Hendrich) , published in 1993 . In it she processed material that she could not use for her scientific work. Your novel has two reporters, Johan Henrik Kellgren's brother and pastor Jonas and his mistress Hedda. Burman notes: "The doubts that exist about the authenticity of this manuscript make a popular edition more advisable" and "flirts [in this way] with the status of the forged historical manuscript".

In her novel Den tionde sånggudinnan (The tenth goddess of song), published in 1996, three women’s fates in Uppsala around 1910 are told. The focus is on the literature lecturer Elisabet Gran, who wants to prove to her professor that new things can still be discovered in still unknown old manuscripts. She goes in search of letters from the Swedish writer Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659–1730), who advocated equal rights for women in the intellectual field. At the same time Burman published an edition of Brenner's letters and published a biography of Brenner in 2001.

Burman's third novel (1998) Cromwell's huvud. Antropologisk komedi ( Cromwell's Skull) is a quirky college comedy set in contemporary Cambridge . She also wrote some historical novels .

Together with her husband Lars Burman, she edited a literary edition of Erik Gustaf Geijer's poems . Among other things, she wrote about the life and work of the “Finnish Sappho” Catharina Charlotta Swedenmarck and wrote a biography of the literary critic and essayist Klara Johanson.

She has received numerous prizes and awards and is a member of the Bellman Society, the Kungliga Vetenskapssamhället in Uppsala, the Clare College in Cambridge and a corresponding member of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

Burman lives in Stockholm. She has been married to the literary scholar Lars Burman since 1983. The couple has three children.

Awards

Fonts

Swedish original editions

Novels

  • Min salig bror Jean Hendrich (1993)
  • Den tionde sånggudinnan (1996)
  • Cromwell's huvud. Antropologisk komedi (1998)
  • Hammaren (1999)
  • Islandet (2001)
  • Babylons gator. Ett London Mystery (2004)
  • Vit som marble. Ett romerskt mysterium (2006)
  • Hästen från Porten. Ett österländskt äventyr (2008)
  • Kärleksroman (2009)

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • Västgöten Johan Henric Kellgren (1987)
  • Days Danielsson, Tegnér och traditions (2003)
  • The finländska sapfo. Catharina Charlotta Swedenmarcks liv och Verk (2004)
  • KJ - En biografi över Klara Johanson (2007)
  • Djävul Pacts. Gösta Ekmans liv och konstnärskap (2011)
  • Folk hunt aldrig mött (2011)
German-language editions / novels
  • The tenth goddess of song . Translated from the Swedish by Gisela Kosubek. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-378-00610-2
  • Cromwell's skull . Translated from the Swedish by Jörg Scherzer. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart and Munich 2000, ISBN 3-421-05214-X

literature

  • Jürg Glauser (editor): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Wischmann: New literary tendencies . In: Scandinavian literary history , Stuttgart 2006
  2. ^ Website of the University of Uppsala ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.littvet.uu.se
personal data
SURNAME Burman, Carina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish author and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1960