Per Christian Jersild
Per Christian Jersild (born March 14, 1935 in Katrineholm , also PC Jersild ) is a Swedish writer and doctor.
Jersild has published over 30 books from 1960 to the present day. His best-known works are Barnens ö ( The Island of Children , made into a film by Kay Pollak in 1980 ), a coming-of-age story about a boy who shuts himself off before going to summer camp to spend the summer in Stockholm alone Babels hus ( Das Haus zu Babel ), in which he describes the inhumane treatment of patients in a modern hospital.
From the mid-1980s, Jersild was a columnist for Dagens Nyheter for several years .
From the University of Uppsala Jersild was in 2000 an honorary doctorate conferred medicine.
Awards (selection)
- 1965 BMF plaque for Calvinol's resa genom världen
- 1974 Aniara Prize
- 1982 Dobloug Prize
- 1982 BMF badge for Efter floden
- 1990 Kellgren Prize
- 1996 Litteris et Artibus
- 1998 Grand Prix of Samfundet De Nio
- 2012 Gerard Bonnier Prize
- 2018 Royal Prize of the Swedish Academy
bibliography
- Free Saturday . Translated from Ortrud Reichel. Hinstorff Verlag 1970
- Calvinol's journey through the world . Translated by Gustav Adolf Modersohn. Carl Hanser Verlag 1970
- The vet . Übers. Heidi Ruddigkeit. Reclam publishing house 1975
- The house of Babel . Translated from Verena Reichel . Hinstorff Verlag 1980
- The children's island . Translated from Verena Reichel. Publishing house Volk und Welt 1983
- Stalk eye . Translated from Verena Reichel. Nagel & Kimche Verlag 1985
- The fiftieth Savior . Translated by Jörg Scherzer . Suhrkamp Verlag 1989
- With Lars Ardelius: Thoughts on Death . Translated by Jörg Scherzer. Insel Verlag 1992
literature
- Karl Michael Armer : Stielauge , in: The Science Fiction Year 1987 (Vol. 2), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-31365-8 , pp. 603-604.
- Ulrike Nolte: Swedish "social fiction". The future fantasies of modern literature classics from Karin Boye to Lars Gustafsson , Münster 2002. ISBN 3-935363-60-5
- Susanna Albrecht: The meaningful in nonsense. An intertextual analysis of ludistic-parodistic text constitutions in "Calvinols resa genom världen" and "Holgerssons" by PC Jersild , 2009. ISBN 978-3-631-58315-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Per Christian Jersild in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Per Christian Jersild at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uppsala universitet: Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biographies 1945–2019 Obituary for Scherzer at the VdÜ
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jersild, Per Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jersild, PC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katrineholm |