Richard Swartz

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Richard Swartz (born December 14, 1945 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish Eastern European correspondent and writer .

Life

Swartz is - on his mother's side - a scion of the upper-class Swartz family, from which, among other things, the Swedish Prime Minister Carl Swartz emerged. Richard Swartz studied at the Stockholm School of Commerce from 1968 , then at Stockholm University and was a student at Charles University in Prague from 1970 to 1972 .

From 1972 to 2009 he reported from Vienna as the Eastern Europe correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet . In 1987/88 he worked temporarily in Paris. He also wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 2009 he has been a freelancer at Dagens Nyheter . He combined some of his journalistic work into books. Since the 1990s he has also been writing fiction, some of which is in German.

Richard Swartz is married to the Croatian writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulić and lives alternately in Vienna, Stockholm and Sovinjak ( Istria ). In 2020 they will jointly receive the International Stefan Heym Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • Oysters in Prague . Translated from the Swedish by Andrea Zederbauer, Vienna: Zsolnay, 2019. ISBN 978-3-552-05932-0 .
  • Blood, Soil & Money. Translated from the Swedish by Hedwig M. Binder, Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Viennese flea market life. Translation by Verena Reichel, Vienna 2015.
  • White lies. Translation by Verena Reichel, Munich 2012.
  • Beyond the edge. Essay. Translation by Hedwig M. Binder, Klagenfurt 2007.
  • Christoph Lingg , Susanne Schaber, Richard Swartz, Serhij Zhadan : shut down. Industrial ruins in the east. Vienna 2007.
  • Directory. Stories from the dark heart of Europe. From the Swed. by Verena Reichel , Munich 2005.
  • A house in Istria. Novel. Translation by Verena Reichel, Munich 2001.
  • Room service. Stories from Europe's Middle East. Translation by Jörg Scherze r [arr. by Martin Pollack ], Frankfurt am Main 1997, The Other Library series .
  • with Péter Nádas : dialogue. Four days in 1989. Translation by Christina Viragh , Reinbek 1994.
  • Oppositions in Eastern Europe. Stockholm 1979.
  • GDR - en stat växer fram. Stockholm 1974.
  • Integration in Eastern Europe. Stockholm 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swartz, Richard CA . In: Hans Uddling, Katrin Paabo (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1993 . 41. Vol. PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1992, ISBN 91-1914072-X , p. 1060 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Stefan Heym Prize 2020 goes to Slavenka Drakulic and Richard Swartz. In: buchmarkt.de. November 13, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ What terms can do. In: FAZ . August 10, 2016, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Swartz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Eastern Europe correspondent and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm