Jesper Svenbro

Jesper Svenbro

Jesper Svenbro in 2011.
Born Jesper Svenbro
10 March 1944
Landskrona, Sweden
Language Swedish
Nationality Swedish
Alma mater Lund University

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.

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Cultural offices
Preceded by
Östen Sjöstrand
Swedish Academy,
Seat No.8

2006-
Succeeded by
incumbent