Elisabeth Rynell (born 17 May 1954) is a Swedish poet and novelist. Her novel ''Till Mervas'' (2002), the first to be translated into English, appeared in 2011 as ''Mervas''.

Biography

Born in Stockholm, Rynell was the daughter of an English teacher and a nurse. After completing her schooling, she spent a year in England as an au pair. She has also visited Iran and Afghanistan on an overland trip to Pakistan and India. After spending much of her life in the far north of Sweden, she now lives in Stockholm and

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. After her husband died when he was only 22, Rynell embarked on her writing career, publishing seven collections of poetry and four novels, both highly esteemed in Sweden. Her first collection of poems ''Nattliga samtal'' (Nocturnal Conversations) appeared in 1990 but it was her novel ''Hohaj'' (1997) which brought her into the limelight and earned her two literary prizes. Her most recent work, ''Skrivandets sinne'' (Sense of Writing, 2013) is a collection of autobiographical essays evoking her writings about the city and the countryside as well as accounts of her closest friends, including the author

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Awards

Elisabeth Rydall has received several awards including the Swedish Radio Novel Prize in 1998 for ''Hohal'', the Swedish Academy's

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...

in 2007 and the Sara Lidman Prize in 2014.

Works

* ''Lyrsvit m.m. gnöl'' 1975 (poetry) * ''Veta hut'' 1979 (novel) * ''Onda dikter'' 1980 (poetry) * ''Humanismens seger'' 1982 (essay) * ''Sorgvingesång'' 1985 (poetry) * ''Sjuk fågel'' 1988 (poetry) * ''Nattliga samtal'' 1990 (poetry) * ''En berättelse om Loka'' 1990 (novel) * ''Öckenvandrare'' 1993 (poetry) * ''Hohaj'' 1997 (novel) * ''Till Mervas'' 2002 (novel) * ''I mina hus'' 2006 (poetry) * ''Hitta hem'' 2009 (novel) * ''Skrivandets sinne'' 2013 (essays)

References

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