Kristina Lugn

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| birth_place = Tierp, Sweden

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| office = Member of the Swedish Academy
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| termstart = 20 December 2006

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| predecessor = Lars Gyllensten

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Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn ({{IPA|sv|krɪsˈtîːna ˈlɵŋːn|lang}}; 14{{nbsp}}November 1948 – 9 May 2020)Jones, Evelyn. "[https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/ Författaren Kristina Lugn är död] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144448/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/ |date=2020-05-09 }}", Dagens Nyheter 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020. was a Swedish poet{{Cite web|url=https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-academy/chair-no-14-kristina-lugn|title=Chair No. 14 - Information about academy member Kristina Lugn|website=svenskaakademien.se|access-date=10 May 2020|archive-date=31 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031052054/https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-academy/chair-no-14-kristina-lugn|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Du ska få ett Panoramafönster ~ Kristina Lugn (1948–)|language=sv|url=https://www.poeter.se/Las+Text?textId=893773|publisher=Poeter.se|access-date=24 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303141523/https://www.poeter.se/Las+Text?textId=893773|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=live}} and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.{{cite news |last1=Lundborg |first1=Beatrice |title=Kristina Lugn – det sista geniet |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kristina-lugn-det-sista-geniet/ |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |access-date=24 February 2016 |date=6 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127135115/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kristina-lugn-det-sista-geniet/ |archive-date=27 January 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Ekman|first1=Michel|title=Kristina Lugn mellan dikt och verklighet|url=http://www.svd.se/kristina-lugn-mellan-dikt-och-verklighet|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|access-date=24 February 2016|date=25 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302145813/http://www.svd.se/kristina-lugn-mellan-dikt-och-verklighet|archive-date=2 March 2016|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|last=Sundberg|first=Björn|title="Jag är baserad på verkliga personer-ironi och röstgivande i Kristina Lugns författarskap"(recension)|url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:516398/FULLTEXT01.pdf|journal=Samlaren-tidsskrift för svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning, 132 (2011)|access-date=20 December 2020|archive-date=2 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402184042/https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:516398/FULLTEXT01.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|title=Från hatad till älskad – så blev Kristina Lugn folkkär|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/fran-hatad-till-alskad-sa-blev-kristina-lugn-folkkar/|access-date=2020-12-20|journal=Expressen|language=sv|archive-date=3 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203051201/https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/fran-hatad-till-alskad-sa-blev-kristina-lugn-folkkar/|url-status=live}}

Early life

Kristina Lugn was born in Tierp and grew up in Skövde where her father, Major-General Robert Lugn, served in the Skaraborg Armoured Regiment, and her mother, Brita-Stina, was a lecturer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kristina-lugn-fran-tierp-till-prinsessbrollop/|title=Kristina Lugn: Från Tierp till prinsessbröllop|date=9 May 2020|website=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509165239/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/kristina-lugn-fran-tierp-till-prinsessbrollop/|archive-date=9 May 2020|url-status=live}}

Career

Kristina Lugn published eight collections of poems from 1972 with her debut Om jag inte.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|title=Författaren Kristina Lugn är död|date=9 May 2020|website=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144448/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|archive-date=9 May 2020|url-status=live}} She also wrote drama and appeared in other media, for instance hosting the show Oförutsett which was broadcast on SVT in 1987. She hosted the show together with Jörn Donner and Bert Karlsson.{{Cite web|url=https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2020/05/09/forfattaren-och-akademiledamoten-kristina-lugn-ar-dod|title=Författaren och akademiledamoten Kristina Lugn är död|website=svenska.yle.fi|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=12 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512020905/https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2020/05/09/forfattaren-och-akademiledamoten-kristina-lugn-ar-dod|url-status=live}}

After the death of actor Allan Edwall in 1997, Lugn assumed the leadership of his small independent theatre Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, where she also staged several of her own plays. She was art director for the theatre until 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|title=Författaren Kristina lugn är död – blev 71 år gammal|website=Expressen|date=9 May 2020 |access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509221013/https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|url-status=live}} Much appreciated by the Swedish audience, she touched on subjects such as loneliness, death and mid-life crises with irony, cynicism and black humour.{{cite news|title="Författarskapet är min enda räddning från mig själv"|publisher=Svenska Dagbladet|date=20 April 2014}} Retrieved 9 May 2020 After 2011 it was run by her daughter, the author Martina Montelius.{{cite web |title=Om Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra |url=http://brunnsgatanfyra.se/ |publisher=Brunnsgatan Fyra |access-date=9 May 2020|date=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617182302/http://brunnsgatanfyra.se/ |archive-date=17 June 2013 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Lisinski |first1=Tomas |title=Brunnsgatan Fyra med Lugn. Ny ledning. Kristina Lugn och Edwalls barn inviger med "Nattorienterarna" som hon skrivit själv |url=http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/brunnsgatan-fyra-med-lugn-ny-ledning-kristina-lugn-och-edwalls |publisher=Dagens Nyheter |access-date=24 February 2016 |date=14 October 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305113050/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/brunnsgatan-fyra-med-lugn-ny-ledning-kristina-lugn-och-edwalls |archive-date=5 March 2016}}

Some of her poetry has been translated into Serbian by Eleonora Luthander.{{cite news |title=Diktogram Dikter med sinnesglädje och estradpoetisk energi |url=http://www.svd.se/dikter-med-sinnesgladje-och-estradpoetisk-energi |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |access-date=9 May 2020 |date=30 January 2008 |archive-date=15 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815204200/https://www.svd.se/dikter-med-sinnesgladje-och-estradpoetisk-energi |url-status=live |last1=Hedlund |first1=Tom }} Several of her plays have also been performed at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, including Tant Blomma, Idlaflickorna, Titta en älg! and Kvinnorna vid Svansjön.{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/kristina-kunde-gora-poesi-av-diskborste|title="Helt oersättlig" – så minns vännerna Kristina Lugn|first=Erik|last=Olsson|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=9 May 2020|access-date=9 May 2020|via=www.svd.se|archive-date=10 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510091413/https://www.svd.se/kristina-kunde-gora-poesi-av-diskborste|url-status=live}} In 2002, Lugn hosted her own live talkshow for guests at Teater Brunnsgatan called Seg kväll med Lugn.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article10304364.ab|title=Seg kväll hur läskig som helst|website=Aftonbladet|access-date=9 May 2020}}

Together with author Henning Mankell, Kristina Lugn wrote the novel Tjuvbadarna.{{Cite web|url=https://www.albertbonniersforlag.se/forfattare/6588/kristina-lugn/|title=Kristina Lugn|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823034500/http://www.albertbonniersforlag.se/Forfattare/Forfattarpresentation/?PersonId=6588|archive-date=23 August 2010|url-status=live}}

Awards, distinctions, and music

On 20 December 2006, Lugn was elected into the Swedish Academy to replace Lars Gyllensten in chair 14.{{Cite web|url=https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/lugn-kristina/|title=Lugn, Kristina|website=Nordic Women's Literature|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018111750/https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/lugn-kristina/|archive-date=18 October 2019|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://gulf-times.com/story/613459|title=Swedish Academy names new jury members for Nobel Prize in literature|date=19 November 2018|website=Gulf-Times|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120190710/https://www.gulf-times.com/story/613459|archive-date=20 November 2018|url-status=live}}

She won awards including the Dobloug Prize in 1999, the Selma Lagerlöf literature prize in 1999, the Bellman prize in 2002, the Gustaf Fröding Society's lyrics prize in 2007, and the Övralids prize in 2009.

During the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010, a newly composed piece of music called "Vilar glad. I din famn", composed by Lugn was performed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/6noy4o|title=Så var musiken vid vigseln|website=Aftonbladet|date=19 June 2010 |access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=2 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402184035/https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/6noy4o/sa-var-musiken-under-vigseln|url-status=live}}

Several known Swedish composers have worked with Lugn's poems including Gabriel Wilczkowski, Bo Ullman, Sven-David Sandström, Kim Hedås and Peter Gullin.[http://www.mic.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6.nsf/docsbycodename/soekresultat?opendocument&fraga=Kristina+Lugn Kristina Lugn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194257/http://www.mic.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6.nsf/docsbycodename/soekresultat?opendocument&fraga=Kristina+Lugn |date=4 March 2016 }} mic.se Retrieved 9 May 2020

On 8 June 2014, Lugn was awarded the Karamelodiktstipendiet.{{cite press release|title=Povel Ramel - Sällskapet - Karamelodiktstipendiater|url=http://www.povelramelsallskapet.se/index.php?action=m2&tema1=Apropovel&tema2=KristinaLugn|work=www.povelramelsallskapet.se|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413041152/http://www.povelramelsallskapet.se/index.php?action=m2&tema1=Apropovel&tema2=KristinaLugn|archive-date=13 April 2016|access-date=9 May 2020}}

Death

Lugn was found dead in her home on 9 May 2020; the cause of death has not been released.

Selected bibliography

Om jag inte (If I Not) 1972
Till min man, om han kunde läsa (To My Husband, If He Could Read) 1976
Döda honom! (Kill Him!) 1978
Om ni hör ett skott (If You Hear A Gun Shot) 1979
Percy Wennerfors 1982
Bekantskap önskas med äldre bildad herre (Looking For Acquaintance With Educated Older Gentleman) 1983
Lugn bara Lugn (Lugn Just Lugn) 1984
Hundstunden (The Dog Hour) 1989
Samlat lugn (Collected Lugn) 1997
Nattorienterarna (The Night Orienteers) 1999
Hej då, ha det så bra (Good Bye, Have A Great Time) 2003
Source:{{Cite web |url=https://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/de-aderton/stol-nr-14-kristina-lugn/kristina-lugn-selektiv-bibliografi |title=Kristina Lugn, selektiv bibliografi | Svenska Akademien |website=svenskaakademien.se |access-date=9 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231072644/https://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/de-aderton/stol-nr-14-kristina-lugn/kristina-lugn-selektiv-bibliografi |archive-date=31 December 2019 |url-status=live}}

Selected plays

När det utbröt panik i det kollektiva omedvetna (When Panic Broke Out in the Collective Unconscious) 1986
Titta det blöder (Look It's Bleeding) 1987
Det vackra blir liksom över (The Beautiful Things Is Kind Of Left Out; American title, "The Hour of the Dog"; performed in New York and Edinburgh) 1989
Tant Blomma (Aunt Flower; American title, "Aunt Blossom"; performed in New York) 1993
Idlaflickorna (The Idla Girls) (American title, "The Old Girls at Lake Garda"; performed in New York) 1993
Silver Star (performed in New York) 1995
De tröstlösa (The Inconsolable) 1997 (written with Allan Edwall)
Titta en älg (Look A Moose) 1999
Stulna juveler (Stolen Jewels; performed in New York) 2000
Eskil Johnassons flyttfirma (Eskil Johnasson's Mover Business) 2000
Begåvningsreserven (The Talent Reserve) 2002
Kvinnorna vid Svansjön (The Women by The Swan Lake) 2003
Två solstrålar på nya äventyr (Two Sunbeams On New Adventures) 2003
Var är Holger, Harald och Herrman? (Where Are Holger, Harald and Herrman?) 2004
Vera 2005
Det finns ett liv därborta i Vällingby (There Is A Life Over There at Vällingby) 2005
Gråt inte mer, Cecilia. Och inte du heller, Ursula (Don't Cry Anymore, Cecilia. And Not You Either, Ursula) 2005
Katarina den stora (Catherine The Great) 2006
Hjälp sökes (Help Sought) 2013
Hej, det är jag igen (Hi, It's Me Again) 2014

Source: {{Cite web|url=https://www.dalademokraten.se/artikel/sevarda-pjaser-av-kristina-lugn|title=Sevärda pjäser av Kristina Lugn|date=15 February 2015|website=dalademokraten.se|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022174810/https://www.dalademokraten.se/artikel/sevarda-pjaser-av-kristina-lugn|url-status=live}}