Sonja Åkesson

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Sonja Åkesson (born April 19, 1926 in Buttle on Gotland , † May 5, 1977 in Halmstad ) was a Swedish writer and artist . She became known for her easily understandable, but socially critical poems.

Sonja Åkesson (1968)

Life

Sonja Åkesson made her debut in 1957 with the volume of poetry Situationer (Situations). She became known with her collection of poetry, Husfrid (House Peace) , published in 1963 . She writes in a distinctive style. Her laconically formulated socially critical poems about the living conditions of average women in their familiar surroundings are adapted to everyday language and full of irony. They deal with the negative phenomena of the present (manipulation and commercialization, for example) or, for example, portray the woman in a drastically distorted form as a grotesque counter-image to the men's imagination of beauty (in a glass veranda ).

Her best known poems are Självbiografi (autobiography) and Äktenskapsfrågan (The question of marriage), which begins with the line “vara vit mans slav” (slave of a white man). Självbiografi from the band Husfrid is a tribute to the poem Autobiography of Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti .

“ While Ferlinghetti's man believes in his vocation as a poet, seems to have a sovereign command of Western cultural heritage and compares himself to Ikaros, Åkesson's woman is passive and depressive, uneducated, and Ikaros' wings have given way to a hump. "

- Thomas Sailer

Åkesson also wrote song lyrics, and since her poems are written in a very simple, slang and therefore easily understandable style, they attracted numerous musicians to set songs. On the CD Sonja Akesson Tolkad Av ... released in 2010, for example, Kajsa Gryt, Annika Norlin , Rebecka Törnqvist , Lisa Nilsson and Frida Hyvönen sing settings of their poetry.

In addition to poetry, Åkesson has written short stories, radio plays and texts for theater and television. She was also active as an artist. Pictures of her can be found, for example, in her book Hjärtat hamrar, lungorna smalter (1972). She had her first exhibition in 1975 at the Halland Museum; her collages were exhibited in the National Gallery in Stockholm in 2004.

Her texts have been translated into English, Japanese, Icelandic and German, among others. Her complete works are in the Sonja Åkesson archive in the library in Hemse on Gotland. In 1969 she received the Ferlin Prize and in 1974 the literature prize “De Nios stora pris”.

Sonja Åkesson last lived in Halmstad; she died in 1977 of liver cancer.

Works

Poetry

  • 1957: Situationer
  • 1959: glass veranda
  • 1963: Husfrid
  • 1965: Ute skiner solen
  • 1969: Slagdängor (lyrics)
  • 1973: Dödens hungary
  • 1974: Sagan om Siv
  • 1977: Hästens öga

prose

  • 1960: Skvallerspegel (novel)
  • 1962: Efter balen ( short stories)
  • 1968: Hå! Vi är på väg (radio play)
  • 1969: Kändis (radio play)
  • 1970: Mamman och pappan som gjorde arbetsbyte (children's book)
  • 1970: Höst side story (musical text)
  • 1974: Sagan om Siv (TV movie manuscript, SVT )
  • 1978: En tid att avliva (prose)

literature

  • Artur Bethke: Sonja Åkesson . In: Northern European literatures . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1980
  • Amelie Björck: Sonja Åkesson . Nature & Culture, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-27-11571-2
  • Mogens Brøndsted (editor): Nordic literary history . Volume II. Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-476-01973-X
  • Helena Forsås-Scott: Sonja Åkesson . In: Goring, R, (Editor): Larousse Dictionary of Writers . Larousse, Edinburgh 1994, ISBN 0-7523-0006-7
  • Helena Forsås-Scott: Swedish women's writing 1850-1995 . London 1997, ISBN 0-485-91003-9
  • Bengt Martin: Sonja Åkesson . Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm 1984, ISBN 91-29-56597-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Northern European literatures . Leipzig 1980
  2. ↑ The undiscovered gender . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X .
  3. ↑ Various Artists: Sonja Akesson Tolkad Av… Playground Music, 2 CDs 2010
  4. ↑ German in only very few anthologies, for example in: Schweden Heute. A reader . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1983
personal data
SURNAME Åkesson, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Buttle on Gotland
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1977
Place of death Halmstad