By landin
Per Landin (born August 5, 1956 in Borgholm ) is a Swedish author , journalist , translator and doctor of German studies .
For many years he wrote for u. a. Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter . Landin is a translator of German-language fiction into Swedish and the author of a number of collections of essays on German literary and cultural history.
biography
Landin is the son of the historian Lennart Landin and grew up in Kalmar and Helsingborg . In 1990 he received his doctorate in German literature from Stockholm University . He worked as a cultural journalist at Sydsvenska Dagbladet and in German-language newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Between 1990 and 2012 he worked for Dagens Nyheter . From 1992 to 1997 he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Humboldt University in Berlin . Landin also works as a translator from German.
Fonts
- I detta land lever vi: ny prosa och lyrik från DDR (antologi; urval och inledning Per Landin, prosaövers. Per Landin, tolkningar Karl H. Bolay [m.fl.], Café Existens, 1982)
- Tyska samtal: en resa genom fyra litteraturer (Symposion, 1988)
- From there to here: on the process of teaching and recording German-language fiction in Sweden 1980–1988 (Symposium, 1990) [Diss. Stockholm University]
- Sista tangon i GDR: ett PS (Symposium, 1992)
- Münchhausen's äventyrligheter och andra otidsenliga utflykter i det nyligen förflutna (symposium, 1994)
- Politisk correcthet på svenska: en antologi (redigerad tillsammans med Pierre Kullbom , Symposion, 1998)
- Slottet som försvann eller hur farmor kom till Öland (Symposium, 1999)
- German translation: The lost castle: a Swede looking for traces in the former East Prussia (Lang, 2004)
- Wagner's mörka dot and andra tyska case study (symposium, 2001)
- Jag heter Per Landin: journalism and polemics (Symposium, 2004)
- Hotel am Kanteck: an artistbook (tio betraktelser av författaren och tre originalitografier av Pontus Carle , Berlin: New Work Publishing, 2008)
- Dietrich Eckarts onda öga ( Bokförlaget Atlantis , 2009)
- Resan till Saaleck (Bokförlaget Atlantis, 2012)
- Kan du inte säga något snallen i stället (Bokförlaget Atlantis, 2015)
- Langbehn's testaments - ett tyskt århundrade i tio chapter ( Bokförlaget Augusti , 2017)
Translations
- Martin R. Dean : De hemliga trädgårdarna ( The Hidden Gardens ) (Bonnier, 1984)
- Bettina Blumenberg : Förförelse ( Seduction ) (Bonnier, 1988)
- Christoph Hein : Tangospelaren ( The Tango Player ) (Norstedts, 1990)
- Wolf Biermann : Daidalos case (plain text in the turmoil. About money and other things close to the heart). Norstedts 1992.
- Günter Grass / Kenzaburo Oe : Mitt Japan - Mitt Tyskland. Ariel Foerlag 1995
- Thomas Brussig : På den kortare sidan av Sonnenallé ( At the shorter end of Sonnenallee ) (Nature & Culture, 2001)
- Thomas Mann : En opolitisk mans betraktelser ( considerations of an apolitical ) (together with Urban Lindström , Bokförlaget Atlantis, 2012)
Awards
- 1992–1994 & 1997 - Alexander von Humboldt fellowship
- 1995 - Media Prize of the East German Cultural Council Foundation (OKR), essay in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- 2001 - Zibetska priset
- 2012 - Hedersledamot in föreningen Heimdal
- 2015 - Gun och Olof Engqvists scholarship
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Atlantis Bokförlag AB | By landin. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Sista tangon i DDR . ( stockholm.se [accessed October 19, 2019]).
- ↑ The lost castle: a Swede looking for traces in the former East Prussia - German Digital Library. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Per Landin: Dietrich Eckarts onda öga . 1st edition. Atlantis, Stockholm, Sweden 2009 ( openlibrary.org [accessed October 19, 2019]).
- ^ Resan till Saaleck - German Digital Library. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Annika Koldenius: Per Landin: "Kan du inte säga något snallen i stället". March 23, 2015, accessed on October 19, 2019 (sv-SE).
- ↑ Simon O. Pettersson: De bortglömdas hävdatecknare. In: Samtiden. March 2, 2018, accessed on October 19, 2019 (sv-SE).
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SURNAME | Landin, Per |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish author, journalist, translator and Germanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Borgholm |