Elisabeth Rynell

Elisabeth Rynell (born 17 May 1954) is a Swedish poet and novelist.[1] Her novel Till Mervas (2002), the first to be translated into English, appeared in 2011 as Mervas.[2]

Biography

Born in Stockholm, Rynell was the daughter of an English teacher and a nurse.[1] After completing her schooling, she spent a year in England as an au pair. She has also visited Iran and Afghanistan on an overland trip to Pakistan and India. After spending much of her life in the far north of Sweden, she now lives in Stockholm and Hälsingland.[3]

After her husband died when he was only 22, Rynell embarked on her writing career, publishing seven collections of poetry and four novels, both highly esteemed in Sweden. Her first collection of poems Nattliga samtal (Noctural Conversations) appeared in 1990 but it was her novel Hohaj (1997) which brought her into the limelight and earned her two literary prizes.[3][4] Her most recent work, Skrivandets sinne (Sense of Writing, 2013) is a collection of autobiographical essays evoking her writings about the city and the countryside as well as accounts of her closest friends, including the author Sara Lidman.[5]

Awards

Elisabeth Rydall has received several awards including the Swedish Radio Novel Prize in 1998 for Hohal, the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize in 2007 and the Sara Lidman Prize in 2014.[6][7]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Elisabeth Rynell: Contemporary Swedish Poetry". Poetry Depot. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Rynell, Elisabeth (2011). To Mervas. Steerforth Press. ISBN 978-1-935744-24-5.
  3. 1 2 "Elisabeth Rynell". The Drunken Boat. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Elisabeth Rynell" (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Skrivandets sinne" (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Tidigare Romanpristagare" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Elisabeth Rynell får Sara Lidman-priset" (in Swedish). Umeå 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
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