Helena Eriksson

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Helena Eriksson (born 1962) is a Swedish poet. Her sixth collection of poetry, Strata (2004), was published in English in 2014. [1] [2]

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Biography

Born in Nyköping, Eriksson was raised in the countryside. After graduating in philosophy and art at Gothenburg University, she worked as an editor for the cultural journal Ord & Bild. She has also worked as a translator. In 1990, she completed her first lyrical collection, Byggnad åt mig (A Building for Me). [1] Her dramatic expressionist poems, written in prose, evoke animal and human worlds which are also depicted in later works. [3] Spott ur en änglamun (Spitting Out of an Angel's Mouth, 1993) depicts a strange fairytale world seen through the eyes of little girls in red dresses who meet Bambi and Fox. [4] She frequently introduces allusions to violence, desire and rupture, sometimes emphasized by the sensuous tactile effects of necklaces and clothing, as in Strata. [2] As a literary translator, she has rendered into Swedish classic texts by women writers, including Anaïs Nin’s House of Incest , Giannina Braschi’s Empire of Dreams (poetry collection), Eileen Myles’ Chelsea Girls, and United States of Banana, and Marguerite Duras' Le Navire Night.

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Awards

Eriksson has won several awards including the Swedish Radio Poetry Prize (Sveriges Radios Lyrikpris) in 2008 and the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize in 2009. [5] She won the 2019 Swedish Academy's prize for her literary translation of Eileen Myles’s works. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Helena Eriksson" (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlad. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Helena Eriksson - strata". Shearsman Books. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Eriksson, Helena". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Pontus Dahlman (1998). "Omåttlig och risktagande. Dikterna i Helena Erikssons nya samling hänger fritt som de vassa resterna av en exploderad planet" (in Swedish). DN.se. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Helena Eriksson och Magnus Dahlström får Doblougska priset" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Svenska Akademiens essäpris | Svenska Akademien". www.svenskaakademien.se. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
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