Jesper Svenbro

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Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944, in Landskrona, Scania) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.

Svenbro was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include Phrasikleia: anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne (1988). He is director of research at Centre Louis Gernet (CRCSA) in Paris. In 2006, he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding the poet Östen Sjöstrand in seat 8.

His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat (poetry magazine) and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press.

Bibliography

Det är idag det sker (1966)
La parole et le marbre : aux origines de la poétique grecque (1976)
Element till en kosmologi och andra dikter (1979)
Särimner (1984)
Phrasikleia : anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne (1988)
Hermes kofösaren (1991)
Storia della lettura nella Grecia antica (1991)
Samisk Apollon och andra dikter
Blått (1994)
Vid budet att Santo Bambino di Aracœli slutligen stulits av maffian (1996)
Myrstigar : figurer för skrift och läsning i antikens Grekland (1999)
Installation med miniatyrflagga (1999)
Pastorn min far (2001)
Fjärilslära : antika, barocka och samtida figurer för det skrivna ordet och läsandet (2002)
Graven och lyran : ett grekiskt tema i Esaias Tegnérs poesi (2002)
Himlen och andra upptäckter (2005)
Östen Sjöstrand : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (2006)
Försokratikern Sapfo och andra studier i antikt tänkande (2007)
Vingårdsmannen och hans söner (2008)
Inget andetag är det andra likt (2011)
Ivar Harrie : minnesteckning (2011)
Echo an Sappho : Sapho-Fragmente = Sapfo fragmenter (2011)
Krigsroman (2013)
Hill, Hill, Hill (2014)

References

Jesper Svenbro, official presentation at Centre Louis Gernet
"SvD:s litteraturpristagare pendlar mellan samtiden och antiken", interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 28 November 2005.
"Nya ledamöter i Svenska Akademien", official press release from the Swedish Academy

Cultural offices
Preceded by Östen Sjöstrand	Swedish Academy, Seat No.8 2006-	Succeeded by incumbent

v t e Members of the Swedish Academy

Lotta Lotass Bo Ralph Sture Allén Anders Olsson Göran Malmqvist Tomas Riad Sara Danius Jesper Svenbro Torgny Lindgren Peter Englund vacant Per Wästberg Gunnel Vallquist Kristina Lugn Kerstin Ekman Kjell Espmark Horace Engdahl Katarina Frostenson

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 4959424 LCCN: n79109278 ISNI: 0000 0001 2118 5815 GND: 128553626 SELIBR: 4959424 BNF: cb120993009

Persondata
Name	Svenbro, Jesper
Alternative names
Short description	Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Date of birth	10 March 1944
Place of birth	Landskrona, Sweden
Date of death	living
Place of death

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