Jacques Werup (14 January 1945 – 12 November 2016) was a Swedish musician, author, poet, stage artist and screenwriter, born in
Malmö
Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...
. Werup's poetry is often associated to
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
. He was a childhood friend of
Mikael Wiehe and
Göran Skytte
Göran or Jöran (both pronounced ) is a Swedish language, Swedish form of George (given name), George, not to be confused with the Slavic languages, Slavic Goran (Slavic name), Goran.
Notable people with the name include:
* Göran Andersson (sai ...
and had his first novel published in 1971. He has co-written many songs with long-time collaborator and composer
Michael Saxell for various projects including Gör mig lite levande which is a CD and nationwide stage show with Swedish singer
Lill Lindfors and En känsla av ljus, which is a concert Werup and Saxell wrote and performed with
Mats Ronander and
Benneth Fagerlund. Werup lived in
Ystad
Ystad () is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates from the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre, and tourist attracti ...
.
In 1997 Werup got the
Ferlinpriset together with
Ola Magnell
Nils Olaus Lennart Karl Magnell (20 January 1946 – 6 February 2020) was a Swedish pop-rock singer and guitarist. His works were first put out by Metronome Records in the 1970s.
References
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1946 births
2020 deaths
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, and was 2003 awarded a scholarship by the Swedish Royal Academy. Was also awarded Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris in 1980.
Bibliography
*Returbiljett Polen (1971)
*Ett å... Två å... Tre å... Fyr! (1971)
*Streber (1972)
*Tiden i Malmö, på jorden (1974)
*Swiss Made (1975)
*Fläckar av liv (1977)
*Casanovas senare resor (1979)
*48 dikter från Österlen (1980)
*Hemstaden (1981)
*Den skräddarsydda sorgen (1982)
*L'heure bleue (1983)
*Shimonoffs längtan (1983)
*Mellan rotfrukt och måne (1983)
*Boulevarder och fågelsträck (interpretations) (1984)
*Vem är Nora Prentiss? (1984)
*Från dörren till hemligheten (1985)
*Handbagage (1986)
*Den sjungande kroppen (1986)
*Ett steg på de älskandes ö (tolkningar) (1986)
*Stjärnan i periferin (1987)
*Pornografens död (1988)
*Den elektroniska synden (1989)
*I ögonhöjd (1990)
*Septemberljus (1990)
*Den sjungande kroppen (prose version, with
Madeleine Pyk) (1986)
*Dikter (1991)
*42 minuter från Paris (1992)
*Det omvända skriket (interpretations) (1992)
*Ängeln på Rue de la Lune (Bonniers Christmas book) (1992)
*Aptiten och ledan (1994)
*Den ofullbordade himlen (1996)
*Det stora preludiet (1997)
*Människan är vem som helst (1998)
*Hemmavid (1999)
*Oldboy (2000)
*Herbarium (med Georg Oddner) (2000)
*Lev länge, dö ung (2001)
*Livet går fort, timmarna sakta (2001)
*Provliv 1–10 (2002)
*Hundra dikter (2005)
*Levande tillsammans (2006)
*Trötta mäns skönhet (2008)
*Medan jag levde (2011)
*Du har funnits här – poesi på liv och död (2015)
*Restaurangmusik (planned 2017)
In addition:
*Gör mig lite levande
*Ljudet av rullande stenar
*Året då natten var kort
Film scripts and TV scripts
*2001 –
Så vit som en snö
*1972 –
N.P. Möller, fastighetsskötare
Prizes and awards
*
Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
*
PiratenPriset 1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
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Lengertz litteraturpris 1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
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De Nios Vinterpris 1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
*
Ferlinpriset 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
*
De Nios stora pris 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
See also
*
Gunnar Harding
References
External links
Albert Bonniers Förlag – Jacques WerupJacques Werup – profile at LIBRIS
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1945 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Swedish male writers
20th-century Swedish screenwriters
Swedish male screenwriters
Musicians from Malmö
Swedish male poets
20th-century Swedish poets