Katarina Frostenson

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Katarina Frostenson (2012)

Katarina Frostenson (born March 5, 1953 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish poet and writer .

Life

Frostenson studied literature, film and theater in Stockholm and debuted in 1978 with the collection of poems I mellan . She is the author of poetry, drama and prose as well as a translator from French. In 1992 she was elected as the fifth woman ever to be a member of the Swedish Academy , which decides on the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature , and thus Artur Lundkvist's successor at seat 18.

She made her debut as a playwright in 1990 with four monodramas for the stage, which were performed in theater and radio. Two plays have been shown in the Royal Dramatic Theater . In 2002 Kristallvägen was performed in the Stockholm Jewish Theater. To Sven-David Sandström's opera Staden , in the 1998 Royal Opera was staged, she wrote the libretto .

Together with her husband Jean-Claude Arnault , a Franco-Swedish photographer, she ran a cultural forum in Stockholm, where literary evenings and intercultural events were organized. The forum closed in late 2017 when her husband was accused of sexual harassment and assault. For the forum he is said to have accepted academy funds, which Frostenson helped to decide. In addition, before the official announcement of Nobel Prize winners for literature, he is said to have already divulged their names in seven cases. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter named Wisława Szymborska , Elfriede Jelinek , Harold Pinter , Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , Patrick Modiano , Svetlana Alexijewitsch and Bob Dylan from legal papers . Thereupon Frostenson should be expelled from the academy, a vote on it found no majority.

On April 12, 2018, she, like Permanent Secretary Sara Danius , announced her withdrawal from active work for the Swedish Academy. Formally, however, both remained members. On January 18, 2019, the academy announced that a settlement had been reached with Frostenson , according to which she would leave the academy but continue to receive financial support. She receives 12,875 Swedish kronor (around 1250 euros) as monthly compensation as well as support for the apartment she rented from the academy.

In May 2019, Frostenson published a kind of diary under the title K , in which she deals with the allegations against her husband and the aftermath of the allegations up to the couple's exile in Paris . She stylizes herself and her husband as victims of a conspiracy . Despite her husband's two-time prison sentence for rape , she accuses the 18 women who accused him of “grotesque exaggeration, lies and slander”. The book was heavily criticized by the Swedish press; The Süddeutsche Zeitung also called it a “seldom stupid, deluded work”, it was “one of the saddest books that the cultural scene has ever produced”.

Works

So far, the following have been published in German:

Prizes and awards

Frostenson received the award for her literary work

Web links

Commons : Katarina Frostenson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Steinfeld: Katarina Frostenson. The scandal surrounding the Swedish poet divided the Nobel Prize jury. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Litteraturbanken. Retrieved February 12, 2014 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Hugo Lindkvist: Kulturrådet granskar sina utbetalningar till Klubben. In: Dagens Nyheter . March 13, 2018 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Carsten Schmiester: Nobel Prize Committee is fighting for survival. In: tagesschau.de. April 13, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ Matthias Hannemann: Nobel Prize Leak. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 11, 2018, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Roman Bucheli: The Nobel Prize for Literature is in free fall. In: NZZ . April 12, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018 (comment).
  7. ↑ Förlikning mellan Svenska Akademien och Katarina Frostenson , press release of the Swedish Academy, accessed on January 18, 2019 (Swedish).
  8. ↑ Swedish Academy: Katarina Frostenson leaves - poet receives compensation , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 18, 2019.
  9. ^ A b Hannes Langendörfer: "Swedish Academy, permanent secretary. Abbreviated: SA, SS “. In: world. May 25, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  10. ^ Frank-Michael Kirsch: In the age of the sick. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 24, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Thomas Steinfeld: Frostenson's furor knows no bounds. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 25, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  12. ^ A b Reinhard Wolff: Nobel Prize Jury Scandal in Sweden: Escape from the Truth. In: TAZ. May 31, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  13. ↑ HM konungens medaljförläningar. January 28, 2007, accessed February 12, 2014 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Frostenson, Katarina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm