Per Hallström

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Per August Leonard Hallström (born September 29, 1866 in Stockholm , † February 18, 1960 in Nacka ) was a Swedish writer , translator and engineer .

Per Hallström and his wife Helga, portrayed by Richard Bergh (1904)

Life

Per Hallström was born as the son of the cashier Conrad Hallström and his wife Johanna, geb. Andersson was born in Stockholm in 1866. In 1883 he passed his high school diploma and began studying engineering at the Technical University (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) in Stockholm, where he graduated as an engineer in 1886. His first collection of poems, “Lyrik och fantasier”, appeared in 1891, and his first novel, “Spring Autoris” (original title: “Våren”) was published in German by Inselverlag Leipzig in 1903 . From 1908 to 1960 he occupied chair No. 14 of the Svenska Academies , of which he was permanent secretary from 1931 to 1941. He was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature , but turned it down in advance. In 1929 he won the Samfundet De Nio Grand Prix .

Services

In addition to his work as a writer, he also made a living as a translator and translated all of Shakespeare's works into Swedish.

In literary terms, he is counted among the storytellers of the 1890s in Sweden, although his career extended well into the 20th century. In the German-speaking countries he was one of the most important Nordic poets alongside Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun .

Works

Selection of the works published in German:

  • Three novellas , Inselverlag, Leipzig 1913
  • A picaresque novel , Inselverlag, Leipzig 1913
  • Gustav Sparfvert's novel , Morawe & Scheffelt, Berlin 1914

literature

  • Agneta Blomqvist; Lars Erik Blomqvist: Vem är vem i svensk literature: författarlexikon från a till ö , Prisma Verlag, Stockholm 1999, ISBN 91-518-3294-1

Web links

Commons : Per Hallström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Per Hallström in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on July 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Ledamotsregister of the Svenska Academies ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swedish Academy website, accessed July 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svenskaakademien.se
  3. ^ A b Carl Snoilsky: Lovtal ur det förflutna , Svenska Dagbladet , December 9, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2015
  4. ^ Svenskt Översättarlexikon, entry on Per Hallström Svensk Översättarlexikon, accessed on July 6, 2015
  5. ↑ De nios priser ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2013 on WebCite ) 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. at samfundetdenio.se (PDF, 185 kB), accessed on July 8, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.samfundetdenio.se
personal data
SURNAME Hallström, Per
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallström, Per August Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1960
Place of death Nacka