Carina Burman

Carina Burman ( born 1960 ) is a Swedish writer and literary scholar.

Life and work

Carina Burman studied history, comparative literature, English and Scandinavian languages ​​and wrote her thesis on the living in the 17th century poet Johan Henrik Kellgren. Burman worked as a lecturer in literature at the University of Uppsala.

A supplement of the dissertation is published their 1993 historical novel Min Salig bror Jean Hendrich ( My late brother Jean Hendrich ). In it, she processed material that they could not use it for their scientific work. Her novel has two rapporteurs, Johan Henrik Kellgrens brother and country parson Jonas and his lover Hedda. Burman noted: " The doubts which prevail over the authenticity of this manuscript, let a popular issue appear advisable " and " flirts [ in this way ] with the status of fake historical manuscript ".

In her novel, released in 1996, the tionde sånggudinnan ( The tenth goddess of song ) to be told around 1910 three women's lives in Uppsala. The focus is on literature professor Elisabet Gran, who wants to prove to her professor that continues to News from unknown ancient manuscripts was to discover. She embarks on a search for letters of the Swedish writer Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730), which advocated equal rights for women in the spiritual realm. At the same Burman gave out an edition of letters burner and in 2001 published a burner biography.

Burmans third novel (1998) Cromwell huvud. Antropologisk komedi ( Cromwell's skull ) is a quirky comedy about college life and plays in contemporary Cambridge. She also wrote some historical novels.

Together with her husband Lars Burman gave out a literary edition of the poems of Erik Gustaf Geijer. She wrote, among others, about the life and work of the " Finnish Sappho " Catharina Charlotta Swedenmarck and wrote a biography of a literary critic and essayist Klara Johanson.

She has received numerous awards and honors and is a member of the Bellman Society, the Kungliga Vetenskapssamhället in Uppsala, of Clare College, Cambridge and a corresponding member of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

Burman lives in Stockholm. She is married to the literary critic Lars Burman since 1983. The couple has three children.

Awards

Writings

Novels

  • Min Salig bror Jean Hendrich (1993 )
  • The tionde sånggudinnan (1996 )
  • Cromwell huvud. Antropologisk komedi (1998)
  • Hammaren (1999)
  • Islandet (2001)
  • Babylon gator. Ett London Mystery (2004)
  • Vit som marble. Ett mysterium romerskt (2006)
  • Hästen från Porten. Ett österländskt äventyr (2008)
  • Kärleksroman (2009)

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • Johan Henric Kellgren Västgöten (1987 )
  • Tage Danielsson, Tegnér och traditions (2003)
  • The finländska Sapfo. Catharina Charlotta Sweden Marcks liv och verk (2004)
  • K. J. - En biographical över Klara Johanson (2007)
  • Djävulspakten. Gösta Ekman liv och konstnärskap (2011)
  • Folk jag aldrig Mött (2011)
  • The tenth goddess of singing. From Swedish by Gisela Kosubek. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-378-00610-2
  • Cromwell's skull. From Swedish by Jörg Scherzer. German publishing house, Stuttgart and Munich 2000, ISBN 3- 421-05214 -X
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