Sigrid Combüche
Sigrid Combüchen Åkerman (born January 16, 1942 in Solingen ) is a Swedish writer and literary critic.
Life
The Combüche family, born in Solingen, Germany, emigrated to Sweden in 1948. She graduated from high school in Halmstad and made her debut as a writer with Ett rumsrent sällskap that same year . This was followed by studies in political science, modern history and literature with a focus on film. After completing her studies, she worked in several newspaper offices before she co-founded the literary magazine “Allt om Böcker” in the 1980s. Combüche also established herself as a literary critic with articles for daily newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter , Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen .
Her international breakthrough came with the novel Byron , published in 1988 , which was published three years later by Klett-Cotta Verlag in Stuttgart based on a translation by Sven Gunnar Feldstein . Her second novel, published in German, was her book Spill , published in 2010 , which sold over 100,000 copies in Sweden and received the prestigious August Prize for the best novel. The Munich publisher Antje Kunstmann published the book in 2012, based on a translation by Paul Berf, under the German title What remains for the German-language book market.
In addition to the Dobloug Prize , the Selma-Lagerlöf Prize and the Samfundet De Nio Grand Prize , Combüchen received numerous awards during her career as a writer. Since 2003 she has also been a lecturer in creative writing at Lund University.
Works
- Ett rumsrent sällskap (1960)
- I norra Europe (1977)
- Värme (1980)
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Byron (1988)
- Byron , Stuttgart 1991, Klett-Cotta, ISBN 3-608-95699-9
- Korta och långa chapter (1992)
- Parsifal (1998)
- En simtur i sundet (2003)
- Livsklattrars. En bok om Knut Hamsun (2006)
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Spill (2010)
- What remains: a women's novel , Munich 2012, Kunstman, ISBN 978-3-88897-747-3
- The umbärliga (2014)
- Sidonie & Nathalie (2017)
Web links
- Literature by and about Sigrid Combüchen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Sigrid Combüchen at perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Combüche, Sigrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen , Germany |