Gunnar Ekelöf

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Gunnar Ekelöf (Stockholm, September 15, 1907 - Sigtuna, March 16, 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958. He was also awarded a honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958.

He won a number of prizes for his poetry. He might have been considered for a Nobel Prize, but since he was a member of the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Laureates, such a nomination might have been considered a conflict of interest. His death in 1968 resolved that conflict, but Nobel's Will only allows living persons to be nominated.

[edit] Selected works

• sent på jorden (1932)
• Hundra år modern fransk dikt (1934)
• Fransk surrealism (1933)
• Dedikation (1934)
• Sorgen och stjärnan (1936)
• Köp den blindes sång (1938)
• Färjesång (1941)
• Promenader (1941)
• Non serviam (1945)
• Utflykter (1947)
• Om hösten (1951)
• Strountes (1955)
• Blandade kort (1957)
• Opus incertum (1959)
• En Mölna-elegi (1960)
• Valfrändskaper (1960)
• Lägga patience (1969)
• En natt i Otowac (1961)
• Diwán över Fursten av Emgión (1965)
• Sagan om Fatumeh (1966)
• Vägvisare till underjorden (1967) (Guide to the Underworld, trans. Rika Lesser)
• Partitur (1969)
• En självbiografi (1971)
• En röst (1973)

• Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf, translated by Muriel Rukeyser ahd Leif Sjöberg, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967)

[edit] Source

• Nationalencyklopedin (2004). Gunnar Ekelöf. Retrieved August 29, 2004.

[edit] External links

• The Gunnar Ekelöf society homepage (in Swedish)
• Biography of Gunnar Ekelöf