Hjalmar Gullberg

Hjalmar Gullberg (born 30 May 1898 in Malmö, Skåne, died 19 July 1961 at Yddingesjön, Skåne; suicide) was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish.

As a student at Lund University, Gullberg was the editor of the student magazine Lundagård. He was the manager of the Swedish Radio Theatre 1936-1950. In 1940 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy, and he also became a honorary doctor of philosophy at Lund University (1944).

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I en främmande stad (1927)
Sonat (1929)
Andliga övningar (1932)
Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (1933)
Ensamstående bildad herre. Tragicomic verse. (1935)
Att övervinna världen (1937)
100 dikter; a selection from six volumes of verse (1939)
Röster från Skansen (1941)
Fem kornbröd och två fiskar (1942; includes Död amazon)
Hymn till ett evakuerat Nationalmuseum (1942)
Den heliga natten (1951)
Dödsmask och lustgård (1952)
Terziner i okonstens tid (1958)
Ögon, läppar (1959)
50 dikter; a selection from three volumes of verse with an introduction by Carl Fehrman (1961)
En anständig och ömklig comoedia. A play in three acts by Hjalmar Gullberg and Olle Holmberg (published 1984)
Kärleksdikter (first edition with this title published 1967)
Dikter. With epilogue by Anders Palm (1985)

Aristophanes: Fåglarna (The Birds) (1928)
Euripides: Hippolytos (Hippolytus) (1930)
Euripides: Medea (1931)
Aristophanes: Lysistrate (Lysistrata) (1932)
Eurypides: Alkestis (Alcestis) (1933)
Sophocles: Antigone (1935)
Molière: Den girige (L'Avare / The Miser) (1935)
Calderón: Spökdamen (La Dama Duende / The Phantom Lady) (1936)
Alfred de Musset: Lek ej med kärleken (On ne badine pas avec l'amour) (1936)
Gabriela Mistral: Dikter (1945)
Federico García Lorca: Blodsbröllop (Bodas de sangre) (1946)
Gabriella Mistral: Den heliga vägen (1949)
Molière: Den inbillade sjuke (Le Malade imaginaire / The Hypochondriac) (translated for Sveriges Radio 1954)
Gåsmors sagor (1955)
Själens dunkla natt and other interpretations of foreign lyrics (1956)
Aischylos: Agamemnon (1960)
Franskt 1600-tal (published posthumously in 1962 with an introduction by Olle Holmberg)
William Shakespeare: Köpmannen i Venedig (The Merchant of Venice) (1964)
William Shakespeare: Som ni behagar (As You Like It) (1964)