Göran Sonnevi
Göran Sonnevi | |
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Göran Sonnevi reading from The Ocean in 2006. | |
Born | Göran Sonnevi (1939-10-03) 3 October 1939 (age 84) Lund, Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | University of Lund |
Period | 1961– |
Notable works | The Ocean |
Göran Sonnevi (born 3 October 1939 in Lund, Skåne County) is a Swedish poet and translator. Sonnevi grew up in Halmstad; he studied literature and linguistics at the University of Lund, also getting librarian training. For many years he has lived in Järfälla outside Stockholm.
Sonnevi is one of the most esteemed poets of modern Sweden and is known as well as a successful and conscientious translator (e.g. of Osip Mandelstam, Ezra Pound and Friedrich Hölderlin). Some of his poems look into topical and political matters of the contemporary scene: the Vietnam War, the Cold War and its ending phases, globalization, immigration and ethnic/cultural conflicts, 9/11 and the Iraq War (both mentioned in the long titular suite of Oceanen), but his conclusions are more searching than easy. The rhythmic and musical qualities of his free verse, with sharp line breaks in the middle of phrases or long, flowing and building lines, are present even when he brings in formal or highly specialized scientific expressions. His work has been translated into several languages.
Awards and honors
In 2005, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'. In 2006, he won The Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his collection Oceanen (the Ocean).
Bibliography
- Outfört (1961) ('Carried out')
- Abstrakta dikter (1963) ('Abstract Poems')
- ingrepp-modeller (1965) ('Intervention Models')
- och nu! (1967) ('And now!')
- Det gäller oss. Dikter 1959–1968 (1969) ('That applies to us. Poems 1959-1968')
- Det måste gå (1970) ('It has to go')
- Det oavslutade språket (1972) ('The unfinished language')
- Dikter 1959–1973 (1974) ('Poems 1959–1973')
- Det omöjliga (1975) ('The Impossible')
- Språk; Verktyg; Eld (1979) ('Language; Tools; Fire')
- Dikter 1959–1972, rev. utg. (1981) ('Poems 1959–1972, revised edition' – two poems which were later included in Det omöjliga have been edited out)
- Små klanger; en röst (1981) ('Tiny sonorities; a voice')
- Dikter utan ordning (1983) ('Poems without order')
- Oavslutade dikter (1987) ('Unfinished poems')
- Trädet (1991) ('The Tree')
- Mozarts tredje hjärna (1996) ('Mozart's third brain')
- Klangernas bok (1998) ('Book of Chords')
- Oceanen (2005) ('The Ocean')
- Dikter i urval (2008) ('Selected Poems')
- Bok utan namn (2012) ('Book without a name')
- Sekvenser mot Omega (2017) ('Sequences against Omega')
- Det osynliga motstyckets bok (2019) ('The Book of the Invisible Counterpart')
- För vem talar jag framtidens språk (2022) ('For whom am I speaking the language of the future?')
External links
- Göran Sonnevi – the poet who won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize 2006[permanent dead link]
- Poems by Göran Sonnevi in the online journal Typomag – translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser
- Poems by Göran Sonnevi in Words Without Borders – translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser
- Göran Sonnevi's poem "In the Darkness of Voices" in New Poetry in Translation – translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser
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- 1962: The Days of His Grace – Eyvind Johnson
- 1963: Under the North Star 3: Reconciliation – Väinö Linna
- 1964: The Ice Palace – Tarjei Vesaas
- 1965: From Hell to Paradise – Olof Lagercrantz and The Good Hope – William Heinesen
- 1966: Diwan on the Prince of Emgion – Gunnar Ekelöf
- 1967: Nye noveller – Johan Borgen
- 1968: Flight of the Eagle – Per Olof Sundman
- 1969: The Legionnaires – Per Olov Enquist
- 1970: Anna, I, Anna – Klaus Rifbjerg
- 1971: Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves & Islands of Slaves – Thorkild Hansen
- 1972: Sju ord på tunnelbanan – Karl Vennberg
- 1973: Kersantin poika – Veijo Meri
- 1974: Uden mål – og med – Villy Sørensen
- 1975: Siinä näkijä missä tekijä – Hannu Salama
- 1976: Að laufferjum & Að brunnum – Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson
- 1977: I de mörka rummen, i de ljusa – Bo Carpelan
- 1978: Dalen Portland – Kjartan Fløgstad
- 1979: Pubertet – Ivar Lo-Johansson
- 1980: Vredens barn – Sara Lidman
- 1981: Hauströkkrið yfir mér – Snorri Hjartarson
- 1982: Samuels bok – Sven Delblanc
- 1983: Om fjorten dage – Peter Seeberg
- 1984: The Christmas Oratorio – Göran Tunström
- 1985: A Day in Ostrobothnia – Antti Tuuri
- 1986: Líkasum – Rói Patursson
- 1987: Hudløs himmel – Herbjørg Wassmo
- 1988: Justice Undone – Thor Vilhjálmsson
- 1989: Roman 1987 – Dag Solstad
- 1990: For the Living and the Dead – Tomas Tranströmer
- 1991: The Sun, My Father – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
- 1992: Night Watch – Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir
- 1993: Byen og verden – Peer Hultberg
- 1994: Blackwater – Kerstin Ekman
- 1995: Angels of the Universe – Einar Már Guðmundsson
- 1996: Hva skal vi gjøre i dag og andre noveller – Øystein Lønn
- 1997: Bang. En roman om Herman Bang – Dorrit Willumsen
- 1998: After Having Spent a Night Among Horses – Tua Forsström
- 1999: Queen's Gate – Pia Tafdrup
- 2000: Drømmebroer – Henrik Nordbrandt
- 2001: The Discoverer – Jan Kjærstad
- 2002: The Half Brother – Lars Saabye Christensen
- 2003: Revbensstäderna – Eva Ström
- 2004: Juoksuhaudantie – Kari Hotakainen
- 2005: The Blue Fox – Sjón
- 2006: The Ocean – Göran Sonnevi
- 2007: Drömfakulteten – Sara Stridsberg
- 2008: Baboon – Naja Marie Aidt
- 2009: I Curse the River of Time – Per Petterson
- 2010: Purge – Sofi Oksanen
- 2011: Between the Trees – Gyrðir Elíasson
- 2012: Days in the History of Silence – Merethe Lindstrøm
- 2013: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord – Kim Leine
- 2014: Mirage 38 – Kjell Westö
- 2015: Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams & Weariness – Jon Fosse
- 2016: Songs and Formulae – Katarina Frostenson
- 2017: Memories of Love – Kirsten Thorup
- 2018: Hotel Silence – Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- 2019: Efter Solen – Jonas Eika
- 2020: Who killed Bambi? – Monika Fagerholm
- 2021: Flower Valley – Niviaq Korneliussen
- 2022: Om udregning af rumfang – Solvej Balle
- 2023: Ihågkom oss till liv – Joanna Rubin Dranger