Jesper Svenbro
{{Short description|Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy}}
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Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Biography
Svenbro was born in Landskrona, Scania, Sweden. He was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation {{Lang|fr|La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque}}, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include {{Lang|grc-latn|Phrasikleia}}: {{Lang|fr|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 and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press. In 2010, Svenbro was awarded the Illis quorum in the eighth size by the Swedish government.
Bibliography
- {{Lang|sv|Det är idag det sker}} (1966)
- {{Lang|fr|La parole et le marbre : aux origines de la poétique grecque}} (1976)
- {{Lang|sv|Element till en kosmologi och andra dikter}} (1979)
- {{Lang|sv|Särimner}} (1984)
- {{Lang|grc-latn|Phrasikleia}} : {{Lang|fr|anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne}} (1988)
- {{Lang|fr|Les savoirs de l’écriture : en Grèce ancienne}} (1988)
- {{Lang|sv|Hermes kofösaren}} (1991)
- {{Lang|it|Storia della lettura nella Grecia antica}} (1991)
- {{Lang|sv|Samisk Apollon och andra dikter}}
- {{Lang|sv|Blått}} (1994)
- {{Lang|sv|Vid budet att Santo Bambino di Aracœli slutligen stulits av maffian}} (1996)
- {{Lang|sv|Myrstigar : figurer för skrift och läsning i antikens Grekland}} (1999)
- Lepidopterology (1999)
- {{Lang|sv|Installation med miniatyrflagga}} (1999)
- {{Lang|sv|Pastorn min far}} (2001)
- {{Lang|sv|Fjärilslära : antika, barocka och samtida figurer för det skrivna ordet och läsandet}} (2002)
- {{Lang|sv|Graven och lyran : ett grekiskt tema i Esaias Tegnérs poesi}} (2002)
- {{Lang|sv|Himlen och andra upptäckter}} (2005)
- {{Lang|sv|Östen Sjöstrand : inträdestal i Svenska akademien}} (2006)
- {{Lang|sv|Försokratikern Sapfo och andra studier i antikt tänkande}} (2007)
- {{Lang|sv|Vingårdsmannen och hans söner}} (2008)
- {{Lang|sv|Inget andetag är det andra likt}} (2011)
- {{Lang|sv|Ivar Harrie : minnesteckning}} (2011)
- {{Lang|de|Echo an Sappho : Sapho-Fragmente}} = {{Lang|sv|Sapfo fragmenter}} (2011)
- {{Lang|sv|Krigsroman}} (2013)
- Hill, Hill, Hill (2014)
- {{Lang|sv|Ekeby trafikförening}} (2015)
- {{Lang|sv|Sapfo har lämnat oss : sapfostudier från sex årtionden}} (2015)
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061122131835/http://www.ehess.fr/centres/gernet/m1JS.htm Jesper Svenbro], official presentation at Centre Louis Gernet
- "[http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_11147459.asp SvD:s litteraturpristagare pendlar mellan samtiden och antiken]", interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 28 November 2005.
- "[https://web.archive.org/web/20061018210633/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/LitiumInformation/site/page.asp?Page=1&IncPage=29&Destination=5&PKNews=266 Nya ledamöter i Svenska Akademien]", official press release from the Swedish Academy
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