Merete Mazzarella
Signe Merete Mazzarella , (born Schreck ; born February 4, 1945 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish-Swedish writer and literary scholar.
Live and act
Mazzarella grew up in Switzerland, China, Turkey and England. She is the daughter of the Ambassador Wilhelm Schreck and his wife Annamarie Cleeman. Between 1968 and 1977 she was married to the English professor Silvester Mazzarella , now she is married to Lars Gustafsson , professor of literature. Their son Ville lives in Chicago.
From 1973 to 1995 Mazzarella was a lecturer in Finnish-Swedish literature at the University of Helsinki . She received her PhD in 1981 with a dissertation on Eyvind Johnson .
Mazzarella was a lecturer in literature in Åbo in 1988, later in Helsinki, where she became professor in 1998. Mazzarella works for the newspapers Hufvudstadsbladet , Nya Argus , Dagens Nyheter , Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Svenska Dagbladet . In 2006, Uppsala University made her an Honorary Doctor of Medicine.
Merete Mazzarella's first autobiographical book Först sålde de pianot (First they sold the piano) was published in 1979. In it she describes life as the daughter of an ambassador. Mazzarella is mainly known for her literary works and her essays. In it, she treats various contemporary phenomena analytically and reflectively, often combined in a humorous way with examples from beautiful literature.
Prizes and awards
Works (selection)
- Först sålde de pianot 1979 (They first sold the piano in 1994)
- Att spela sitt liv 1981
- Myt och verklighet: berättandets problem i Eyvind Johnsons roman Stränderas svall 1981 (dissertation)
- Påsk 1983
- Från Fredrika Runeberg till Märta Tikkanen : Frihet och beroende i finlandssvensk kvinnolitteratur 1985
- Den okände sällskapsresenären 1987
- Det trånga rummet 1989
- Samtal 1990
- Agnes von Krusenstjerna 1992
- Hem från fest 1992 (return from festival 1996)
- Att skriva sin värld 1993
- Aunts and Crocodiles 1995
- Otrohetens lockelse 1997
- Där man aldrig är ensam 1999
- The sig sommaren kring sin axel 2000
- Linjer mellan stjärnor 2002
- November 2004
- The goda beröringen 2005
- Fredrika Charlotta född Tengström: en nationalskalds hustru 2007
- När vi spelade Africa's stjärna: En bok om barnbarn 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Merete Mazzarella in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazzarella, Merete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mazzarella, Signe Merete (full name); Schreck, Signe Merete (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish-Swedish writer and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |