Carl-Henning Wijkmark

Carl-Henning Wijkmark

Carl-Henning Wijkmark (* 1934 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish writer , translator , literary historian and literary critic . He is one of the most important authors of contemporary Swedish literature, and his works deal with questions of humanity, political and social issues in a variety of ways.

Life

Wijkmark grew up in an academic family. The father was a doctor of theology and the mother a teacher. In Lund , Wijkmark took his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1957 and completed his dissertation in philosophy in 1967 in Stockholm. He also studied literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He then worked as a lecturer at Stockholm University and the State Library School from 1968 to 1970.

Wijkmark lived for a long time in Germany and France and worked as a literary critic and radio essayist before devoting himself exclusively to prose in the 1970s.

job

In 1972 Wijkmark made his literary debut with Jägarna på Karinhall . It is about the private life of the National Socialist politician Hermann Göring . Wijkmark also works on European issues in his other writing activities. In Last Days he writes about an assassination attempt on President de Gaulle in the early 1960s or in the novel Dacapo about the upheavals in Europe in 1989. The first- person book Approaching Night describes the feelings of a doomed person and is an appeal for a dignified death.

Wijkmark was called cosmopolitan and literary outsider in Sweden , perhaps because he was more recognized outside of Sweden. He was the first Swedish writer to be featured in the popular French television literary program Apostrophes . He also showed significant commitment as a translator of German and French post-war literature, translated the writings of Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin into Swedish and published several collections of essays .

Works

Tyska romaner , 1965 Fransk roman efter 1945 , 1968 Jägarna på Karinhall ( The Hunters on Karinhall ), 1972, ISBN 978-3-88221-896-1 Rött och svart , 1976 På flykt undan mina landsmän , 1976 Den moderna döden ( The modern death ), 1978, ISBN 3-935978-02-2 Dressinen ( La draisine ), 1983, ISBN 978-2-86869-072-2 Sista dagar ( Last Days ), 1986, ISBN 978-3-935978-09-5 Literature ochhabenkovärde , 1988

Sveaborg 1990 Omsvängningarnas år , 1991 Dacapo , 1994 Du som ej finns ( Who you are not ), 1997, ISBN 978-3-935978-01-9 Den svarta väggen ( The Black Wall ), 2002, ISBN 978-3-935978-13-2 Valley on Övralid 6 July 2003 , 2003 Samtides of Bakom Oss. Essäer och Commentary 1992–2004 , 2005 Stundande natten ( approaching night ), 2007: Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-88221-649-3

Prizes and awards

• 1986 Doblougska Prize
• 1986 Sherlock Prize for Sista dagar
• Samfundet De Nios Prize 2001
• Övralids Prize 2003
• Gerard Bonnier Prize 2007
• Lotten von Kræmer Prize 2007
• August 2007 prize for hours
• Scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia , Bamberg 2009/2010

Others

The young German composer Johannes X. Schachtner refers to books by Carl-Henning Wijkmark in two instrumental works: on the one hand in his elegy “Stundande natten” for two oboes and cor anglais (alternatively for two flutes and alto flute), on the other hand in the burlesque for Wagner tuba solo on “Jägarna på Karinhall”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl-Henning Wijkmark in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on www.norstedts.se . Retrieved June 11, 2014 (Swedish). 
• Book presentations on www.perlentaucher.de . Retrieved June 11, 2014 . 
• Biography Wijkmarks, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography Wijkmark, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Carl-Henning Wijkmark, at www.norstedts.se
3. ↑ Holger Doetsch, book review approaching night