Sven Stolpe

Sven Stolpe (Stockholm 24 August 1905 – Filipstad 26 August 1996), was a Swedish writer, translator, journalist, literary scholar and critic[1]. He was active in Swedish literary and intellectual discussion for most of his life. In the early 1930s he argued for internationalism and against esteticism, but he was also part of the Oxford Group which claimed the necessity of "moral and spiritual re-armament"[2] and later in life, in 1947, he became a catholic. Among his literary production is a dissertation on queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated as a result of her own conversion to Catholicism, which was published in 1959.[3]

In 1984, the Belgian biographer Joris Taels published a biography of Stolpe.[4]

He is buried in Vadstena cemetery.[5][6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Sven Stolpe in Nationalencyklopedin (Swedish)
  2. ^ Stenborg, Elisabeth. 2004. Lätt, snabb och oöm. Sven Stolpe i minnet In Signum, Swedish Catholic journal on culture and religion. (Swedish)
  3. ^ Lönnroth, Lars, and Sven Delblanc (eds). 1989. "Vid Fronten: Sven Stolpe". Den svenska litteraturen, p. 79 (Swedish)
  4. ^ Sven Stolpe : een monografie, bibliographical record in LIBRIS
  5. ^ Göran Åstrand, Här vilar berömda svenskar. 1999, p. 120 (Swedish)
  6. ^ Sveriges Television, "Gäst hos Hagge", 10th of September 1977.

Further reading

Christoffersson, Birger. 1956. Sven Stolpe och den litterära debatten. Stockholm: Bonnier. (Swedish)