However, cited several times as one of the favourites for the Nobel for Literature, Per Olov Enquist has never been the recipient of the prestigious award. He
However, cited several times as one of the favourites for the Nobel for Literature, Per Olov Enquist has never been the recipient of the prestigious award.
He was a dominant figure of scandinavian) literature of the Twentieth century. The Swedish Per Olov Enquist, died Saturday evening at the age of 85 years, announced his family and his publisher. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, Per Olov Enquist has produced a work powerful plunging into the shadows of history and his own biography, melancholy and thunderous.
His writings have been translated into dozens of languages, from The eye of crystal was published in 1961, in the Book of the parables in 2013. French has notably published The Fifth Winter of the healer, Hess, and the Departure of The musicians, The fallen Angel, The Library of captain Nemo, Blanche and Mary.
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Her novel on the insanity of king Christian VII of Denmark, The personal physician to the king, earned him a prize in 1999 August, the highest literary award in sweden, and in 2001 in France, the prix du Meilleur livre étranger.
Often cited as one of the favourites for the Nobel prize for Literature awarded by the Swedish Academy, he died without having won the prestigious award. “Rare are those which have inspired many other writers, renewed like him the novel documentary and brought alive the drama, Swedish”, reacted Sunday to her publishers Swedish house Norstedts.
Childhood austere
His autobiography, another life, published in Sweden in 2008, is crowned by a second prize August, created in 1994 in tribute to August Strindberg, the enfant terrible of literature in Swedish that “POE” was said as a duty. The author recounts his youth lonely in the far north of Sweden with her mother a primary school teacher, widow, lutheran rigorist who had dreamed for him of the seminar.
Born in 1934 in Hjoggböle, austere parish in the North, he grew up in a setting bergmanien with the memory of having inherited the bed for his brother which is dead at birth, the absence of a father died while he had not a year, of his mother who pushes him to invent sins to confess. Then this giant in the light ruched a Gregory Peck escapes, enters the school, practice the high jump at a high level, awakens to the journalism, writing, women.
He just miss the qualification for the olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and is found, as a journalist, in the heart of the olympic games 1972 in Munich where eleven israeli athletes are killed by palestinian commando “black September”.
Depression and alcoholism
at the age of man, arise the fears, the depression, the self-doubt, the value of existence. “I believe that all my life I wanted to be a writer and I’ve never dropped. It was not easy to survive…”, told Enquist in 2011.
Per Olov Enquist, it is ultimately a fight to the death against alcoholism. He spent three years in Paris, almost without sober up. “I lived in a sumptuous apartment on the Champs-Elysées, but I couldn’t write anything (…) I remember the wonderful view that I had from the balcony, Paris was very beautiful to look at, but I couldn’t use it.”
The third cure is good, because he leaves his computer and that one fine day, he realizes that he is “always a writer”. “The most terrible for a writer not to write, but not write. This is a period of my life that is now behind me and I was glad to tell.”
Date Of Update: 22 May 2020, 09:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn