Lasse Söderberg

S-a născut la Stockholm în anul 1931. A publicat critică literară în paginile mai multor ziare și reviste suedeze, printre care „Dagens Nyheter”, „Expressen”, „BLM”. Debutează ca poet în anul 1955 cu volumul de poezii Akrobaterna (Acrobații), publicând după aceea numeroase volume, majoritatea excelând prin bogăția imaginilor. Printre acestea Sexton dikter (Șaisprezece poezii), 1991; Pilar mot månen (Săgeți spre lună), 1992 și Mitt nittonde år (Cel de-al nouăsprezecelea an al meu), 1993. În 1986 îl prezintă publicului suedez pe Emil Cioran, traducând cartea acestuia „Despre neșansa de a te fi născut”. Este inițiatorul Festivalului de Poezie de la Malmö. **** Lasse Söderberg, poet and translator from a variety of languages, was born in 1931 and eventually settled in Malmö where he started and for the last nineteen years has been the organizer and artistic leader of the International Poetry Days in Malmö. He has published — in addition to translations and non-fiction — more...

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Lassi Nummi

Lassi Nummi (born 1928) considers himself a prose-writer who has strayed into poetry. In a career spanning almost half a century and 25 collections of poetry, his preoccupations, and his central metaphors, have remained constant: landscape, trees, bushes, blades of grass. Interview by Tarja Roinila; poems translated by Herbert Lomas and Anselm Hollo 'During my "social period" I was on the board of the Writers' Union, and its chairman from 1969 to 1972; after that I worked for the Uusi Suomi newspaper and for the PEN Club, whose chairman I was from 1983 to 1988. I was a member of the Bible translation committee for the entire period of its existence, 17 years. A completely different choice would have been to become either a Buddhist or a Christian monk, or then to be a really convinced down-and-out- that might have been the most elegant solution. One could have regulated one's liquid intake, but the freedom of movement would have been pleasant. At the moment I am working out how much...

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Lasse Söderberg

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