Torben Brostrøm

Torben Brostrøm (born June 4, 1927 in Kalundborg ) is a Danish literary historian , critic and university professor who received both the Søren Gyldendal Prize and the Georg Brandes Prize .

Life

After schooling Brostrøm graduated and was after graduating as a Master than 1,953 high school teacher in Copenhagen worked. In the mid- 1950s he began his long career as a literary critic for daily newspapers and magazines , focusing in particular on lyrical modernism in Danish literature . After Det umådelige mådehold (1959) a first edition of literary critical essays appeared in 1960 with the title Versets løvemanke .

1970 put Brostrøm, who was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1968, a first monograph about Klaus Rifbjerg , one of the most prolific Danish writer of the present, entitled Klaus Rifbjerg I before. In the following years he dealt with modern Danish literature as well as contemporary Swedish literature and in 1973 was accepted as a member of the Danish Academy ( Det Danske Akademi ).

In 1979 he accepted a professorship for Danish literature at the Teachers' College ( Danmarks Lærerhøjskole ) at Aarhus University and taught there until his retirement in 1992. In 1983 he published another volume of literary critical essays under the title Modernismen før og nu , ehe er 1986 got an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund .

After Folkeeventyrets moderne genbrug (1987) he published Visse øjeblikke. 21 livsbilleder , for which he received the Georg Brandes Prize in 1988. In 1991 he published another monograph on the writer, Klaus Rifbjerg II . After his retirement he was not only editor of Den Store Danske Encyklopædi from 1992 to 2002 , but also dealt with his autobiography , which appeared in 1997 under the title Lod og del and was continued in 1998 with Tegn og træf . In it he not only portrayed his childhood and youth in Kalundborg, Copenhagen and Aalborg , but also described his study and professional time after the Second World War as formative stations before starting his writing activities.

Most recently, he published another volume of literary criticism, Underspil (2002) and Rad og række (2006) and Ventetid. Om ikke at do. En nærerindring (2007) a continuation of his memoir . As a result, and his numerous other works, he not only had a great influence on the literary criticism of Denmark, but also influenced educational and cultural-political aspects.

In 2002 he received the Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy .

more publishments

Poetisk kermesse (1962)
Ti års lyric (1966)
Labyrint and arabesque (1967)
Ti års Review (1975)
Den ny åbenhed. 1970'ernes brugslitteratur (1981)
Fantasi and Document (1984)
Men dansen den går (1994)
Uden title (2003)

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personal data
SURNAME	Brostrøm, Torben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish literary historian, critic and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kalundborg