Eva Ribich

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Eva Ribich (2009)

Eva Ribich (* 1970 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) is a Swedish poet .

Life

Eva Ribich was born in the United States . At the age of four the family moved to Sweden , where they grew up in Täby . She studied computer science and systems science at the IT University in Kista and creative writing at the north författarskola on Biskops-Arnö .

She made her debut as a writer with the collection of poems in 1997. A year later she received the Stig-Carlson Prize on the grounds that she described "everyday things with a sensuality and sensitivity" . For her poetry collection Ljuset kommer in underifrån , published in 2007 , she received both the Gerard Bonnier Poetry Prize endowed with 100,000 Swedish kronor and the Guldprinsen endowed with 25,000 Swedish kroner .

Ribich lives openly gay and in Stockholm .

Works (selection)

  • Med kinden mot det gula (1997)
  • You are the end with hjärta har velat (2000)
  • Longitudinal med gräns (2003)
  • Ljuset kommer in underifrån (2007)
  • Det är vatten sålångt jag kan se och Längre (2010)
  • Vi vaknar (2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Malin Backström: Lesbisk lyrik och den obefolkade texten  ( 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. , rfsl.se , April 9, 1999, accessed January 30, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rfsl.se  
  2. ↑ Eva Ribich on albertbonniersforlag.se , accessed on January 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ribich, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapel Hill , North Carolina