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Lars Jakobson
Lars Jakobson (1959, Lund) is a Swedish author. Among the awards he won are the Svenska Dagbladet book prize and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, both in 2006. (Swedish) For many years he lived in Stockholm. Bibliography *''Vinterkvarteret'' (novel, 1985) *''Vetten'' (novel, 1986) *''Menageri'' (short stories, 1989) *''Pumpan'' (novel, 1991) *''Hemsökelser'' (short stories, 1994) *''Kanalbyggarnas barn'' (novel, 1997) *''I den Röda damens slott. En martiansk biografi'' (novel, 2000) *''Stjärnfall. Om sf'' (essays, 2003) (Co-written with Ola Larsmo and Steve Sem-Sandberg) *''Berättelser om djur och andra'' (short stories, 2004) *''Vid den stora floden'' (novel, 2006) *''Vännerna'' (novel, 2010) *''Effek ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lund
Lund (, ;"Lund" (US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town had 94,393 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 130,288 . It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öresund Region, which includes ''Lund'', is home to more than 4.2 million people. Archeologists date the founding of Lund to around 990, when Scania was part of Denmark. From 1103 it was the seat of the Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lund, and the towering Lund Cathedral, built –1145, still stands at the centre of the town. Denmark ceded the city to Sweden in the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenska Dagbladet
(, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily List of Swedish newspapers, newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. History and profile The first issue of appeared on 18 December 1884. During the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the right-wing publications in Stockholm. Ivar Anderson is among its former editors-in-chief who assumed the post in 1940. The same year was sold by Trygger family to the Enterprise Fund which had been established by fourteen Swedish businessmen to secure the ownership of the paper. The paper is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region. Its Subscription business model, subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden. The paper was one of the critics of the Prime Minister Olof Palme, and in December 1984 it asked him to resign from the office following his interview published in ''Hufvudstadsbl ... [...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, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in Värmland County 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 The winners of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize are: * 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 Englun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola Larsmo
Ola Larsmo was born in 1957 in Sundbyberg and has lived in Västervik for ten years. He studied at Uppsala University, mainly in North Germanic languages, literature, theology and history. Larsmo was editor of BLM from 1984 to 1990, and now works as writer and freelance critic, mainly for Dagens Nyheter. He was a member of the board at Författarförbundet ("Authors association") until May 2003. , he has been living in Uppsala. In 2008 he was awarded the Bjørnson Prize. Larsmo was appointed to the Moa Martinson visiting professorship at Linköping University Linköping University (LiU; ) is a public university, public research university based in Linköping, Sweden. Originally established in 1969, it was granted full university status in 1975 and is one of Sweden's largest academic institutions. T ... for the academic year 2023–2024, specialising in the contribution of the historic novel to research, and historical falsification, historical distortion, and the role o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 16 August 1958) is a Swedish journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer, and translator. He made his literary debut in 1976 with the two science fiction novels ''Sländornas värld'' and ''Sökare i dödsskuggan''. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize for fiction in 2005. His 2009 novel, '' The Emperor of Lies'', was awarded the August Prize. It recounts the life of the Łódź ghetto and its leader Chaim Rumkowski in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Daphne Merkin in ''The New York Times'' said that he had succeeded in writing "a freshly felt, fully absorbing novel about the Holocaust," an even more difficult task as he was writing about a known historical figure in Rumkowski.Daphne Merkin, "The Man Who R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
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Swedish Male Writers
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Selma Lagerlöf Prize Winners
Selma may refer to: Places In the United States *Selma, Alabama, city in Dallas County, best known for the Selma to Montgomery marches * Selma, Arkansas *Selma, California, city in Fresno County * Selma, Colorado * Selma, Indiana, town in Delaware County * Selma, Iowa * Selma, Kansas * Selma, Louisiana * Selma, Michigan * Selma, Mississippi * Selma, Missouri * Selma, North Carolina, town in Johnston County * Selma, Ohio * Selma, Oregon, unincorporated community in Josephine County * Selma, South Carolina * Selma, Texas, a city in Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe counties * Selma, Virginia * Selma Township (other), various places Elsewhere * Selma, Nova Scotia, Canada * Selma, Switzerland, village in the Grisons Historic buildings * Selma Union Depot, a train station and museum in Selma, North Carolina * Selma (Eastville, Virginia), a plantation house listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * Selma (Leesburg, Virginia), a mansion and former plantatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dobloug Prize Winners
Dobloug is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jørgen Dobloug (1945–2018), Norwegian artist * Mikkel Dobloug (politician) (1844–1913), Norwegian merchant, wholesaler, philanthropist, and politician * Mikkel Dobloug (skier) (born 1944), Norwegian Nordic combined skier {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
