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Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy

Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro in 2011.Jesper Svenbro in 2011.
BornBengt Åke Jesper Svenbro
(1944-03-10) 10 March 1944 (age 80)
Landskrona, Sweden
LanguageSwedish
NationalitySwedish
Alma materLund University
Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 8)
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 December 2006
Preceded byÖsten Sjöstrand

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 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 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

  • Det är idag det sker (1966)
  • La parole et le marbre : aux origines de la poétique grecque (1976)
  • Element till en kosmologi och andra dikter (1979)
  • Särimner (1984)
  • Phrasikleia : anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne (1988)
  • Les savoirs de l’écriture : en Grèce ancienne (1988)
  • Hermes kofösaren (1991)
  • Storia della lettura nella Grecia antica (1991)
  • Samisk Apollon och andra dikter
  • Blått (1994)
  • Vid budet att Santo Bambino di Aracœli slutligen stulits av maffian (1996)
  • Myrstigar : figurer för skrift och läsning i antikens Grekland (1999)
  • Lepidopterology (1999)
  • Installation med miniatyrflagga (1999)
  • Pastorn min far (2001)
  • Fjärilslära : antika, barocka och samtida figurer för det skrivna ordet och läsandet (2002)
  • Graven och lyran : ett grekiskt tema i Esaias Tegnérs poesi (2002)
  • Himlen och andra upptäckter (2005)
  • Östen Sjöstrand : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (2006)
  • Försokratikern Sapfo och andra studier i antikt tänkande (2007)
  • Vingårdsmannen och hans söner (2008)
  • Inget andetag är det andra likt (2011)
  • Ivar Harrie : minnesteckning (2011)
  • Echo an Sappho : Sapho-Fragmente = Sapfo fragmenter (2011)
  • Krigsroman (2013)
  • Hill, Hill, Hill (2014)
  • Ekeby trafikförening (2015)
  • Sapfo har lämnat oss : sapfostudier från sex årtionden (2015)

References

Cultural offices
Preceded byÖsten Sjöstrand Swedish Academy,
Seat No.8
2006– 		Succeeded byincumbent
Swedish Academy
"o work for the 'purity, vigour and majesty' of the Swedish language"
Current
members
  1. Eric M. Runesson
  2. Bo Ralph
  3. David Håkansson
  4. Anders Olsson
  5. Ingrid Carlberg
  6. Tomas Riad
  7. Åsa Wikforss
  8. Jesper Svenbro
  9. Ellen Mattson
  10. Peter Englund
  11. Mats Malm (permanent secretary)
  12. Per Wästberg
  13. Anne Swärd
  14. Steve Sem-Sandberg
  15. Jila Mossaed
  16. Anna-Karin Palm
  17. Horace Engdahl
  18. Tua Forsström
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