Silkeberg's most recent books respond to some of the most wrenching events of recent decades, including globalization and the war in Syria.[6] She collaborated with Ghayath Almadhoun on the 2014 book Till Damaskus.[7][8][9] The book was at Dagens Nyheters literary critic list for Best new books and was also converted to a radio play at Swedish National Radio. Together with Ghayath Almadhoun she has made several poetry films.
Her 2021 book Revolution House was reviewed in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's newspaper of record, as a book about a relationship full of "passion with political blockages."[10] Another review of the book in Aftonbladet calls Silkeberg "wonderfully daring and forward-thinking."[11]
Awards and fellowships
In 2004, Silkeberg was awarded the Swedish Radio Poetry Prize for Sockenplan, säger hon.[12] She received Karl Vennberg's Poetry prize from the Nine Society in 2007. She was an artist in residence at Circolo Scandinavo, the Nordic artists' residence program in Rome.[13] In 2015 she was a resident in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.[14]
In 2018 she held a fellowship at MacDowell.[15] Her 2021 book Revolution House was nominated for the Swedish Radio Poetry Prize.[16]
Silkeberg has received three writing grants from the Swedish Academy. The first was in 2002, the Ilona Kohrtz grant.[17] That was followed by the Kalleberger grant in 2007.[18] And in 2015, she was awarded the Anna Sjöstedts grant from the Swedish Academy.[19] And the Signe Ekblad-Elds Prize in 2017.
Some of Silkeberg's poems appear in translation into German, Arabic, Slovenian, and English at LyrikLine.[22] An excerpt of her book Atlantis, translated into English by Emma Warg, was featured in the Swedish Translation Issue of the literary journal Interim, edited by Johannes Göransson.[23]Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems, translated into English by Kelsi Vanada, published in 2021 by Terra Nova Press, an imprint of MIT Press,[24] was longlisted for the 2022 PEN America Poetry in Translation Award.[25]
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