Jesper Svenbro | |
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 Jesper Svenbro in 2011. | |
| Born | Bengt Åke Jesper Svenbro 10 March 1944 Landskrona, Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Alma mater | Lund University |
| Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 8) | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Östen Sjöstrand |
Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944) is a Swedish poet,classical philologist,and member of the Swedish Academy.
Svenbro was born in Landskrona,Scania,Sweden. He was educated at Lund University,where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation La parole et le marbre:aux origines de la poétique grecque,on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include Phrasikleia:anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne (1988). He is director of research at Centre Louis Gernet (CRCSA) in Paris. In 2006,he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy,succeeding the poet Östen Sjöstrand in seat 8.
His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias,and appearing,among other venues,in the journal Samizdat and the volume The Three-Toed Gull:Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press. In 2010,Svenbro was awarded the Illis quorum in the eighth size by the Swedish government.
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