Ninni Holmqvist
Inger Ninni Marianne Holmqvist (born June 24, 1958 in Lund ) is a Swedish writer and translator .
Life
Ninni Holmqvist grew up in Malmö in the south of Sweden . She worked in a variety of professions before settling on writing. She attended writing courses at the adult education centers in Skurup and on the island of Biskops-Arnö near Håbo and at the University of Gothenburg . She lives and works in Katslösa in the municipality of Skurup .
Work and translations
Her first published book was a collection of short stories, which appeared in 1995 under the title Kostym in the Stockholm publishing group Nordstedts. Her first novel, published in 1999 by Nordstedts under the title Något av bestående karaktär , was published in 2004 in a German translation (as Die Verführten ) as a Suhrkamp paperback. Her dystopian novel Enhet , which appeared in Sweden in 2006, has been translated many times, for example into Norwegian (2007 with Damm as Enheten ), Dutch (2007 with Anthos as De eenheid ), English (2008 with Other Press as The Unit ), German ( 2008 when Fahrenheit publishing and 2011 as Fischer paperback as The Entbehrlichen ), Russian classic (2010 at rippol as материал Биологический , revisions under the title Вечернее платье должно быть сексуальным ) and French (2011 Éditions SW Télémaque as L'unité ). He has been compared to Karin Boyes Kallocain (1940) and George Orwell's 1984 (1949).
In 2010 Holmqvist was awarded the Ludvig Nordström Prize of the Ludvig Nordström Society, endowed with 15,000 Swedish kronor.
Ninni Holmqvist has transferred works by Jane Aaamund , Natasha Illum Berg , Sara Blædel , Kirsten Hammann , Helle Helle , Iselin C. Hermann , Christina Hesselholdt , Peter Høeg and Ida Jessen from the Danish as well as by Adam Thirlwell , Kurt Vonnegut and Xinran from the English into Swedish .
Novels
- Något av bestående karaktär. Nordstedts, Stockholm 1999, ISBN 978-91-1-300664-2 .
- German translation: The seduced. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-45623-7 .
- Enhet. Nordstedts, Stockholm 2006, ISBN 978-91-1-301612-2 .
- First edition of the German translation: Die Entbehrlichen. Fahrenheit, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-940813-00-8 .
Short story collections
- Kostym. Nordstedts, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 978-91-1-942251-4 .
- Biroller. Nordstedts, Stockholm 2002, ISBN 978-91-1-301039-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ninni Holmqvist in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ninni Holmqvist at perlentaucher.de
- Ninni Holmqvist on the website of the Nordstedts publishing group (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article about Ninni Holmqvist ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Ester Jiresch as part of the literature in the context of the University of Vienna project
- ↑ Ulla Sundström: Om att inte räknas . Article from September 19, 2006 in the daily newspaper Göteborgs-Posten (Swedish).
- ↑ The Ludvig Nordström priset on ludvignordstromsallskapet.se (Swedish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holmqvist, Ninni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holmqvist, Inger Ninni Marianne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lund |