Gösta Ågren
Sven Gösta Ågren (born August 3, 1936 in Nykarleby ; † June 24, 2020 ) was a Finnish-Swedish poet , essayist and literary scholar at Stockholm University .
Life
Agren was editor of People's Daily Ny Tid ( "New Time") and an employee of the University Library of Helsinki . After completing a two-year directing course at the Svenska Filminstitutet film school, he studied Humaniora at Stockholm University in the 1970s , where he also disputed with a treatise on Dan Andersson . In 1955, Ågren made his debut with the poetry collection Kraft och tanke (“Power and Thought”), but the real breakthrough came in the 1970s.
He served as a senior member of the Swedish Writers' Association of Finland from 1958 to 1961, 1968 to 1971, 1972 to 1977 and 1995 to 1996. Ågren has also directed . But most of his work is poetry , prose and radio plays. His works have been translated into Finnish, English, French, Icelandic, Spanish and Russian.
The writers Erik and Leo Ågren were his older brothers. Gösta Ågren died in June 2020 at the age of 83.
Honors
- 1986 Tollanderska priset
- 1988 Finlandia Prize
- 1989 Carl Emil Englund Prize for Jär
- 1995 Dan Andersson Prize
- 1997 Vasa län art award
- 2001 Choraeus Prize
- 2011 Svenska Akademiens Finlandspris
- 2019 Bellman Prize
Works (selection)
Poetry
- Folkvargarna , 1958
- Kraft och tanke , 1955
- Bergsväg , 1959
- Ett brev från Helsingfors , 1961
- Säg farväl åt natten , 1963
- Kungörelser , 1965
- Ågren: dicter , 1968
- Cellens dagrar , 1970
- Massmöte på jorden , 1972
- Dan Andersson: Nattvandrare: okända dikter ( Unknown poems : found and commented on by Gösta Ågren), 1972
- Molnsommar , 1978
- Paus: valda dikter 1955-1980 , 1979
- Dikter i svartvitt , 1980
- The other guden , 1985
- Jär , 1988 (1st part of the Jär trilogy )
- Städren , 1990 (2nd part of the Jär trilogy)
- Hid , 1992 (3rd part of the Jär trilogy)
- Kväll över seklet , 1994
- Timmermannen , 1996
- Dranga , 1998
- En arkadisk sång , 2003
- Här i orkanens blinda öga , 2006
- Bottniska nätter , 2009
Essays
- Dan Anderssons väg , 1970
- Hammarbandet: en bok om Österbottens allemogebåtar , 1975
- Var inte rädd , 1976
- Vår historia (A chronicle of the fate of the Finnish Swedes, an analysis of the national history), 1977
- Ett nej , 1986
- Detta liv , 2001
- von Bödelns nattvard , 2007
Novels
- Jordlös bonde , 1956
Further
- Emigrant resan , 1960 (travel description)
- Levande livet , 1964 (drama)
- Kärlek som i allting bor : Dan Andersson's life and work 1916–1920 (dissertation at Stockholm University)
- Han kommer, han kommer , 1973 (short stories)
- Dan Andersson: En spelmanssaga: okända berättelser (stories: found and commented on by Gösta Ågren), 1973
- Dan Andersson: Milrök: okända dikter och berättelser (poems and stories: found and commented on by Gösta Ågren), 1974
- Det som alltid är , 1982
- Bortom Nostradamus , 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Gösta Ågren in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gösta Ågren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography of Gösta Ågren. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 (Swedish).
- Short biography of Gösta Ågren. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 (Swedish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gösta Ågren är död , hbl.fi, 24./25. June 2020, accessed June 26, 2020
- ↑ Gösta Ågren's biography on www.nykarleby.fi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ågren, Gösta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ågren, Sven Gösta (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish Swedish language writer, poet, essayist and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nykarleby |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2020 |