Jacques Werup

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Jacques Tore Werup

Jacques Tore Werup (born January 14, 1945 in Malmö ; † November 12, 2016 there ) was a Swedish musician , writer , poet , stage artist and screenwriter .

Life

The versatile Jacques Werup was born in Malmö in 1945 and has been friends with Mikael Wiehe since childhood . In 1971 he made his debut as a writer. Werup has published more than thirty books in the form of poetry collections, novels , travel books and essays .

With simple words the poet Werup was able to convey profound ideas to the reader. Pathos and the really big feelings alternate with irony and ease. Elegies about the transience of the world and embedded humorous everyday stories from Skåne characterize various works. Because of this emotional range, he has been compared to his namesake Jacques Brel and also to Leonard Cohen . In 1996 the novel Den ofullbordade himlen ( The Unfinished Sky ) about Elsa Andersson , Sweden's first female pilot and skydiver in the early 20th century, was published. The book partially forms the basis for Jan Troell's film Så vit som en snö ( As white as snow ), for which Werup wrote the scripts together with Troell. The film won a Guldbagge for best film in 2001.

Werup's poetry is commonly associated with jazz . He played with Frans Sjöström in the Werup Sjöström group. In later years he worked several times with the composer Michael Saxell and on poetry and music concert gymnastics such as Gör mig lite levande ( Make me a little more lively ) with Lill Lindfors or En känsla av ljus ( A feeling of light ) with Mats Ronander . With the pianist and composer Rolf Sersam, with whom Werup had worked since the 1970s, and the drummer Johan Bergström, he undertook poetic-musical reflections on joy and pain in existence.

Jacques Werup was at home in both Skåne and France . He lived in Ystad and again in Malmö for the last two years of his life.

Works

Books

  • Return plane Poland (1971)
  • Ett å… Två å… Tre å… Fyr! (1971)
  • Nerd (1972)
  • Tiden i Malmö, på jorden (1974)
  • Swiss Made (1975)
  • Fläckar av liv (1977)
  • Casanovas senare resor (1979)
  • 48 dikter från Österlen (1980)
  • Hemstaden (1981)
  • Worry about the skräddarsydda (1982)
  • L'heure bleue (1983)
  • Shimonoff's Long (1983)
  • Mellan Rotfrukt och Måne (1983)
  • Boulevarder och fågelsträck (tolkningar) (1984)
  • Vem är Nora Prentiss? (1984)
  • Från dörren till hemligheten (1985)
  • Handbagging (1986)
  • The sjungande kroppen (1986)
  • Stjärnan i periferin (1987)
  • Pornografens Död (1988)
  • The electroniska synden (1989)
  • I ögonhöjd (1990)
  • Septemberljus (1990)
  • Dictator (1991)
  • 42 minutes from Paris (1992)
  • Det omvända skriket (tolkningar) (1992)
  • Aptiten och ledan (1994)
  • Den ofullbordade himlen (1996)
  • Det stora preludiet (1997)
  • Mannniskan är vem som helst (1998)
  • Hemmavid (1999)
  • Oldboy (2000)
  • Lev length, dö ung (2001)
  • Provliv 1-10 (2002)

Scripts

  • NP Möller, fastighetsskötare (1972)
  • Så vit som en snö (2001)

Prizes and awards

  • Great Prize for Literature Funding for Novels, 1980
  • Pirate Prize, 1989
  • Lengertz Literature Prize, 1991
  • Culture Prize of the City of Malmö, 1995
  • Winter Prize of the Nine , 1996
  • Ferlin Prize, 1997
  • Grand Prix of Nine, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Jacques Werup in Aftonbladet
  2. ↑ Jacques Werup / Rolf Sersam / Johan Bergström , Nordischer Klang eV, 2009
  3. ↑ Jacques Werup at www.malmo.com , 2003
  4. ↑ Världsmedborgaren från Malmö. Sydsvenskan, November 12, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Werup, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werup, Jacques Tore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish musician, writer, poet, stage artist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2016
Place of death Malmo