Gabi Gleichmann
Gabi Gleichmann (born February 2, 1954 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-Swedish-Norwegian cultural journalist, publisher and author.
Life
Gleichmann first grew up in Budapest . His family emigrated to Sweden in 1964 when his father, a Hungarian diplomat of Jewish origin, decided not to return to his homeland because of political developments and widespread anti-Semitism . He attended school in Stockholm and studied literature and philosophy up to the age of 22. Gleichmann works as a publisher for the Agora publishing house, which he founded with his wife Anette and which, among other things, publishes Péter Nádas in Norway and had numerous works of world literature translated into Norwegian for the first time . As a journalist, he writes for the cultural section of Expressen, among other things . Gleichmann was President of the Swedish PEN Club from 1990 to 1994 . He has been married to Anette Gleichmann, née Skaugen, since 1998 and has lived in Vinderen near Oslo since then .
In 2012 he received the Norwegian debut award for his novel Udødelighetens elixir . The novel tells the 36-generation story of the Jewish Spinoza family. It was immediately translated into twelve languages and has now also appeared in German.
Fonts (selection)
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Udødelighetens elixir . Aschehoug, 2012, ISBN 978-82-03-35208-9
- The elixir of immortality . Translated from the Norwegian by Kerstin Hartmann and Wolfgang Butt. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24124-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabi Gleichmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Gabi Gleichmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Leif Ekle: Udødelighetens elixir , at Norsk rikskringkasting , August 27, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Johansson: Gabi Gleichmann: Udødelighetens elixir. In: Expressen. November 29, 2012, accessed May 11, 2020 (Swedish).
- ↑ Gabi Gleichmann (PDF; 64 kB), at konyvfesztival
- ↑ Carsten Hueck: A Jewish European - The Swede Gabi Gleichmann wrote a story of the Spinoza family that spans thirty-six generations . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 274 . Zurich November 25, 2013, p. 39 .
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung of Nov. 25, 2013
Remarks
- ↑ There is an article on Anette Gleichmann in the English Wikipedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Same man, Gabi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-Swedish-Norwegian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |