Per Christian Jersild, better known as ''P. C. Jersild'', (born 1935) is a

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author and physician. He also holds an honorary

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from the Faculty of Medicine at

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from 22 January 2000, and another one in engineering from the

Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Since 2018, KTH consist ...

(1999).

Biography

P. C. Jersild was born in

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in a middle-class family. His first book was ''Räknelära'' which he released 1960 at the age of 25, although he had already been writing for 10 years at that time. Until now he has written 35 books, usually focused on social criticism. His most famous work is ''Barnens ö'' (''Children's Island''), which tells the story of a young boy, on the verge of adulthood, who runs off from a children's summer camp to spend time alone in the big city,

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. Other notable books include ''Babels hus'' (''The House of Babel''), which gives an account of the inhuman treatment of patients at a large modern hospital, said to be modeled on the

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in Huddinge outside Stockholm, and the science fiction novel ''En levande själ'' (''A Living Soul''), about a living, thinking and feeling human brain floating in a container of liquid. Aside from his literary production, Jersild has also been a columnist for

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since the mid-1980s. In 1999, he was elected a member of the

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Awards

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's Literary Prize 1973 *The Aniara Prize 1974 *The Kellgren Prize 1990 *"

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" (''Society of the Nine's Grans Prize'') 1998 *Övralidspriset 2007 * Ingemar Hedenius Award 2007

Bibliography

* Räknelära, 1960 *

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, 1961 * Ledig lördag, 1963 * Resa genom världen, 1965 * Pyton, 1966 * Prins Valiant och Konsum, 1966 * Grisjakten, 1968 * Vi ses i Song My, 1970 * Drömpojken, 1970 * Uppror bland marsvinen, 1972 * Stumpen, 1973 * Djurdoktorn, 1973 (''The Animal Doctor'', trans. Margareta Paul & David M. Paul) * Den elektriska kaninen, 1974 * Barnens ö, 1976 (see also the 1980 film) (''Children's Island'', trans. Joan Tate) *

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, 1978 (''House of Babel'', trans. Joan Tate) * En levande själ, 1980 (''A Living Soul'', trans.

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) * Professionella bekännelser, 1981 *

Efter floden ''After the Flood'' () is a 1982 novel by the Swedish novelist P. C. Jersild. It was well received as it played into the contemporary fear of nuclear holocaust. P.C. Jersild was an active anti-nuclear campaigner as part of the Nobel Prize–winn ...

, 1982 (''After the Flood'', trans. George Blecher & Lone Thygesen Blecher) *

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, 1983 *

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, 1984 * Geniernas återkomst, 1987 * Svarta villan, 1987 * Röda hund, 1988 * Ett ensamt öra, 1989 * Fem hjärtan i en tändsticksask, 1989 * En livsåskådsningsbok, 1990 * Alice och Nisse i lustiga huset, 1991 * Holgerssons, 1991 * Röda hund, 1991 *

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, 1993 * En gammal kärlek, 1995 * Ett gammal kylskåp och en förkyld hund, 1995 * Sena sagor, 1998 * Darwins ofullbordade: Om människans biologiska natur, 1999 * Ljusets Drottning, 2000 * Hundra Fristående Kolumner i Dagens Nyheter, 2002 *

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, 2012

References

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