Eleonora Luthander (''née'' Damjanović; 9 February 1954 - 25 August 2021), born in

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, was a Swedish and Serbian

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and

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Biography

Luthander studied at the

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in Belgrade. Between 1986 and 1994 she lived on the Adriatic island of

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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;

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and

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and haiku poetry from

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. Her poetry collections ''Diktogram'' and ''Vägen till

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'' (Road to Gdinj) are listed in the Swedish Academy's

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. 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 magazine ''Sesam Öppnar Dörrar''. She often participated in

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competitions in Sweden, both as a contestant and as an organizer. Luthander often drew inspiration from Japan; several of her published works are Japanese short poems,

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. Luthander folded

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flowers and wrote her poems on stalks. She brought haiku,

and

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together into her own ''Orikebana''. She was married to the Swedish journalist

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between 1975 and 1986. She has a daughter and a son, they both live in Stockholm.

Style

Her poems are often described with sense of joy and energy. The poetry is straightforward and unadorned as stylistic for poets such as

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and

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. Luthander's poems are unsentimental and the imagery is original and sometimes drastic.

Bibliography

Collection of poems in Swedish

* 1998 ''- Vägen till Gdinj'' * 1999 ''- Angantyr'', * 2000 ''- Måncykel'', * 2002 ''- 100% kärlek'', * 2003 ''- Öfvre Östermalm'', * 2005 ''- 33 blommor för Sandjusangendo'', * 2007 ''- Diktogram'', * 2010 ''- Kranvatten'', * 2014 ''- Dubai haiku'', diktsamling, * 2017 ''- Orikebana'', * 2020 ''- Klimat haiku'', * 2021 - ''Ökenhörna'',

Collection of poems in other languages

Croatian, Serbian & Montenegrin * 1993 ''- Žvončići sreće'', Split * 1994 ''- Put u Gdinj'', Split * 2005 ''- Minut ćutanja'', Belgrade, * 2005 ''- Hvarska prigovaranja'', Belgrade, * 2006 ''- Ikebana'', haiku, Belgrade, * 2006 ''- Mojim ustima'', Belgrade, * 2008 ''- Kapital'', Stockholm, * 2009 ''- Medovina'', Podgorica, * 2011 ''- Česmovača'', Stockholm * 2012 ''- Cmokva'', Podgorica * 2015 ''- Ela Čevska'', Podgorica, * 2019 ''- Haiku bento'', Stockholm

Translations

From Swedish to Serbo-Croatian

* 2005 - Dovidjenja i srećno! (''Hej då ha det så bra!''), Kristina Lugn, Belgrade * 2006 - Izgubljena reč, (''Det Förlorade Ordet''), Bruno K. Öijer, Belgrade * 2006 - Izmedju 16 i 26, (''Mellan sexton och tjugosex''), Lukas Moodysson, Belgrade * 2007 - Vreme za ljubav, (''Tid för kärlek''), Ulf Lundell, Belgrade * 2009 - Vrijeme za ljubav ''(Tid för kärlek)'', Ulf Lundell, "UKCG", Podgorica * 2013 - Bergman i žene ''(Bergman och kvinnor)'', Alexandra Luthander, Stockholm

From Serbo-Croatian to Swedish

* 2005 - Ögat är större än himmelen, serbiska poeter jag har mött (''Oko je prostranije od neba, srpski pesnici koje sam upoznala)'', e book, "Serum.se", Stockholm * 2005 - Ögat är större än himmelen, ''(Poeziju će svi pisati),'' "Gatos", Belgrade * 2007 - Alla skall skriva poesi 2, (''Poeziju će svi pisati 2),'' Stockholm * 2008 - Alla skall skriva poesi 3, (''Poeziju će svi pisati 3)'', Stockholm * 2008 - Alla skall skriva poesi: serbiska poeter jag mött, (''Poeziju će svi pisati: srpski pesnici koje sam upoznala),'' e book, "Serum.se", Stockholm * 2010 - Brev från Serbien ''(Pisma iz Srbije),'' Slobodan Branković, Stockholm

References

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