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Kristina Lugn
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn (; 14November 1948 – 9 May 2020)Jones, Evelyn.Författaren Kristina Lugn är död", Dagens Nyheter 9 May 2020. Accessed 9 May 2020. was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy. Early life Kristina Lugn was born in Tierp and grew up in Skövde where her father, Major-General Robert Lugn, served in the Skaraborg Regiment (armoured), Skaraborg Armoured Regiment, and her mother, Brita-Stina, was a lecturer. Career Kristina Lugn published eight collections of poems from 1972 with her debut ''Om jag inte''. She also wrote drama and appeared in other media, for instance hosting the show Oförutsett which was broadcast on Sveriges Television, SVT in 1987. She hosted the show together with Jörn Donner and Bert Karlsson. 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 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tierp
Tierp () is a locality and the seat of Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 6,143 inhabitants in 2018. Communications Tierp is connected to Uppsala and Gävle by commuter train Upptåget and the new (2007) section of highway E4 passes just west of Tierp. Sports The following sports clubs are located in Tierp: * Strömsbergs IF * Tierps IF Tierp Arena is located here. It is a world class auto racing facility. The main sport at this facility is Drag Racing. It hosts two FIA European Drag Races per year. One in June and the other in August. Emil Norling of Tierp, is the classic powerlifting world champion of 2019, in the -105 kg junior category. He dominated the competition with a 312.5 kg squat, 195 kg bench press and a 355 kg deadlift. This added up for a 862.5 kg total, which made him the king of Swedish powerlifting and also put Tierp on the map of Sweden. Main sights Tämnarån is a river passing just west of the locality. The Gillb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Luthander
Eleonora Luthander (''née'' Damjanović; 9 February 1954 - 25 August 2021), born in Kruševac, Yugoslavia, was a Swedish and Serbian poet, columnist and translator. Biography Luthander studied at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. Between 1986 and 1994 she lived on the Adriatic island of Hvar in Croatia where she made her debut as a writer in 1993 with the book ''Žvončići sreće.'' She has published over 30 books and translations partly through her Swedish book publisher Ord & Visor. She has translated contemporary Swedish poets in Serbian; Kristina Lugn, Bruno K. Öijer, Lukas Moodysson and Ulf Lundell and haiku poetry from Dag Hammarskjöld. Her poetry collections ''Diktogram'' and ''Vägen till Gdinj'' (Road to Gdinj) are listed in the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library. Luthander was a member of the Swedish Writers Association and the Swedish Immigrant Writers Association, later renamed the Swedish International Writers Association. She worked as a columnist for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Uppland
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Swedish Theatre Directors
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People From Tierp Municipality
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2020 Deaths
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1948 Births
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List Of Members Of The Swedish Academy
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven-David Sandström
Sven-David Sandström (30 October 1942, in Motala – 10 June 2019) was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works. Life and career Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University. He also studied musical composition at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He was a faculty member at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and Indiana University Bloomington's Jacobs School of Music, where he taught for fifteen years. Among his works are ''The High Mass'', a Requiem, concertos for flute, guitar, piano, and cello, and the 2001 opera, '' Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy'' on a libretto and originally directed by Claes Fellbom, who commissioned the work for the centennial of the Swedish opera company. Fellbom translated the opera into English and directed its first production in that language at Indiana University in February 2003. In 2006, Sandström's Ordet - en passion was performed on 24 March in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Wilczkowski
In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (); Greek: grc, Γαβριήλ, translit=Gabriḗl, label=none; Latin: ''Gabriel''; Coptic: cop, Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, translit=Gabriêl, label=none; Amharic: am, ገብርኤል, translit=Gabrəʾel, label=none; arc, ܓ݁ܰܒ݂ܪܺܝܐܝܶܠ, translit=Gaḇrīʾēl; ar, جِبْرِيل, Jibrīl, also ar, جبرائيل, Jibrāʾīl or ''Jabrāʾīl'', group="N" is an archangel with power to announce God's will to men. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran. Many Christian traditions — including Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Roman Catholicism — revere Gabriel as a saint. In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27). The archangel also appears in the Book of Enoch and other ancient Jewish writings not preserved in Hebrew. Alongside the archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Of Crown Princess Victoria
The wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place on 2010 in Stockholm Cathedral. It has been described as "Europe's biggest royal wedding since the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981." Westling thereby acquired Victoria's ducal title, becoming a Swedish prince and Duke of Västergötland. In time for the wedding, a joint monogram of their initials was created. Background Victoria is the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. As the firstborn of the family, she was designated heir apparent in 1979, ( SFS 1979:932) ahead of her younger brother. Westling was Victoria's personal trainer at Master Training. In July 2002, Victoria and Westling were pictured kissing for the first time at a birthday party for Caroline Kreuger, a close friend of Victoria's. Westling and Victoria's engagement was announced on 24 February 2009. The wedding was set to take place in Stockholm Cathedral on 19 June 2010, the 34th anniversary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf Prize
The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in 1983 and has been awarded annually since 1984. Recipients receive 100,000 Swedish kronor. The awards ceremony takes place in Sunne every August 13 and is in honor of Selma Lagerlöf. List of recipients *1984 – Birgitta Trotzig *1985 – Sara Lidman *1986 – Astrid Lindgren *1987 – Göran Tunström *1988 – Lars Ahlin *1989 – Kerstin Ekman *1990 – Lars Andersson *1991 – Lars Gyllensten *1992 – Tove Jansson *1993 – Georg Henrik von Wright *1994 – Stig Claesson *1995 – Ulla Isaksson *1996 – Rolf Edberg *1997 – Per Olov Enquist *1998 – Göran Palm *1999 – Kristina Lugn *2000 – Torgny Lindgren *2001 – Agneta Pleijel *2002 – Peter Englund *2003 – P. C. Jersild *2004 – Sigrid Combüchen *2005 – Birgitta Stenber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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