Sven Stolpe

Sven Stolpe (1905-1996) at the time of his literary debut in 1929

Sven Stolpe (24 August 1905, in Stockholm 26 August 1996, in Filipstad) was a Swedish writer, translator, journalist, literary scholar and critic.[1] His brother was Herman Stolpe. Sven Stolpe was active in Swedish literary and intellectual discussion for most of his life. In the early 1930s, he argued for internationalism and argued against aestheticism, 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)

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