Sivar Arnér
Ernst Nils Sivar Erik Arnér (born March 13, 1909 in Arby , Kalmar Lan ; † January 13, 1997 ) was a Swedish writer , radio play writer and playwright .
Life
Arnér grew up in Småland as the son of a merchant. He studied literary history, Nordic languages and history at the University of Lund , was a master’s degree at the age of 32 and then a teacher in Karlskrona , in Skara and from 1944 to 1947 in Norrköping . In 1959 he married the artist and author Lenke Rothman .
In 1943 he made his debut with his novel Plånbok borttappad ( Lost Wallet ), which deals with questions of power and law in connection with the Finnish Winter War . “In his first works Arnér tries to interpret human loneliness and ambivalence in a mystical way.” He wrote several dramas and in the late 1950s numerous radio plays as well as the text for Sven-David Sandström's first opera (1973) På Finsta sommaren år 1316 (Birgittamusik Number 1).
The background of his most important book of the Stockholm novel Tvärbalk ( crossbeams , 1963) is the problem of the welfare state. The work was translated into German and filmed in 1967 under the direction of Jörn Donner . Using the example of its main character, a Jew who emigrated to Sweden, the film shows the refugees' alienation after years of deprivation in the concentration camp and the apolitical attitude and egoism of the residents of the capital. The film had little success.
In most of his novels, the contrasts between men and women play a major role. In society, very contradicting types of people are often combined, whose marriages without illusions he described and analyzed. "The analytical-psychological outweighs the lyrical in Arnér's tightly composed novels." His style combines expressive realism with symbolism, he is "light, quick, effective and reproduces dialogues with virtuosity."
Awards
- 1945: Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize
- 1955: Samfundet De Nio Grand Prix
- 1961: Literature Prize of the monthly magazine Vi
- 1963: Litteraturfrämjandet's Great Novel Prize
- 1968: Litteraturfrämjandets Grand Prix
Works
- Original Swedish editions
- Plånbok borttappad , 1943
- Skon som krigaren bar , 1943
- Knekt och klerk , 1945
- Egil , 1948
- Vackert väder , 1950
- Han-Hon-Ingen , 1951
- Tväralk , 1963
- Där är han , 1975
- När man är flera , 1982
- Året innan , 1988
- Räkna till tre , 1991
- German language translations
- Transom . Translation: Anne Storm. Hinstorff, Rostock 1973
- Fear . Translation: Helga Thiele. In: Swedish storytellers from eight decades . People and World, Berlin 1986
- A coincidence . In: you , No. 1, 1956.
- The slaves . radio play
literature
- Artur Bethke, Horst Bien u. a .: Northern European literatures . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1980
- Ulf Wittrock: Sivar Arnér . In: Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2105-6
- Birthe Sjöberg: The underminerade nihilists. Sivar Arnér, fransk existentialism och svensk Kulturdebatt. Lund 1993
- Arnér, Ernst Nils Sivar Erik . In: Gero von Wilpert (ed.): Lexicon of world literature AK . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Northern European literatures . Leipzig 1980, p. 80
- ↑ Lexicon of World Literature LZ . Munich 1997
- ^ Film studio . Issue 54, July-September 1967
- ↑ Nordic literary history . Volume II, p. 535
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnér, Sivar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnér, Ernst Nils Sivar Erik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer, radio play writer and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arby , Kalmar Lan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1997 |