Stina Aronson

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Stina Aronson

Ester Kristina ( Stina ) Aronson (born December 26, 1892 in Uppsala as Ester Kristina Andersson , † November 24, 1956 in Uppsala) was a Swedish writer . She is one of the early Swedish modernists .

Life

Aronson was given up for adoption just a month after her birth because her father, a priest, refused to accept the illegitimate child. She came into the family of a butcher and lived there for a few years. When the stepfather committed a murder, she was taken in by her biological mother. As a grown woman, Aronson lived in Tornedalen for a long time after she married Anders Aronson, the senior physician at the Norrbotten Tuberculosis Hospital.

Aronson made his debut in 1921 with En bok om goda grannar (German: A book about good neighbors). She only achieved her breakthrough in 1946 with the less experimental novel Hitom himlen (German: On this side of the sky) about the fictional village of Mäntyjärvi in Tornedalen . Critics at the time rated the novel positively, but categorized it as a provincial tale. Literary scholars today regard the Swedish classic as critical of society. Aronson rejects all attempts to categorize and define people. Two years after this book, Sång till Polstjärnan (German: A song on the polar star) appeared in which she proved to be a master of the novella . In several later works, novels, poems and plays, she was inspired by the province of Norrbotten. As inspired by the love affair with the writer Artur Lundkvist is Tolv hav (German: Twelve Seas) 1930 viewed. With this collection of poems, which appeared under the pseudonym Sara Sand, Aronson approaches the modernists. For the time, this erotic, open lyric , which criticized the male, inflated ego of her lover, was unusual. Although critics felt provoked by this work, the collection was received positively by, for example, Hagar Olson and Elmer Diktonius . It is assumed that Feberboken (German: Fieberbuch) is also about Lundkvist. It was published under her second pseudonym, Mimmi Palm.

From 1949 Aronson was a member of the Samfundet De Nio .

Works

  • En bok om goda grannar , 1921 ISBN 1-142-53009-4
  • Slumpens myndling , 1922
  • Jag ger vika , 1923
  • Två herrar blev nöjda , 1928 under the pseudonym Sara Sand
  • Fables om Valentin , 1929 under the pseudonym Sara Sand
  • Tolv hav , 1930 under the pseudonym Sara Sand
  • Syskonbädd , 1931 under the pseudonym Sara Sand
  • Feberboken , 1931 under the pseudonym Mimmi Palm
  • Medaljen över Jenny , 1935
  • Byar under fjäll , 1937
  • Gossen på tröskel , 1942
  • Hitom himlen , 1946
  • Sång till polstjärnan , 1948
  • Kantele , 1949
  • Två skådespel , 1949
  • Dockdans , 1949
  • Den fjärde vägen , 1950
  • Sanningslandet , 1952
  • Den röda gåvan och andra noveller , 1967

Prizes and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Writer from Norrbotten: Stina Aronson (Swedish), accessed October 27, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Lennart Kuick: Modernist Stina Aronson in focus ( Memento from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Dagens Nyheter from February 3, 2010, culture, page 12 (Swedish), accessed October 27, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Aronson, Stina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aronson, Ester Kristina (full name); Andersson, Stina; Andersson, Ester Kristina (maiden name); Sand, Sara (pseudonym); Palm, Mimmi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1956
Place of death Uppsala