Carl Henrik Fredriksson

Carl Henrik Fredriksson ( born October 1, 1965 in Jönköping, Sweden) is a literary critic, columnist, essayist and translator and lives in Vienna ( Austria ). He is editor and publisher of Eurozine - network of European cultural journals and cultural magazine on the net, which he also co-founded in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he was editor in chief of Sweden's oldest cultural journal Ord & Bild, whose editor he had been since 1995.

He is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Media and Communication Policy in Berlin and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Fredriksson studied from 1987 to 1995 comparative literature, philosophy, sociology and art history at the University of Lund and intellectual history and hermeneutics at the University of Gothenburg. Since 1988 he has published articles on poetry, literature, literary theory, art, philosophy, media and politics in numerous Swedish and international newspapers and magazines, including 90 - tal, Courrier International, Dagens Nyheter, Glänta, Göteborgs-Posten, Ord & Bild, Pequod, Reč, Svenska Dagbladet, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Varlik, Vikerkaar and wasps nest. In addition, he produces a regular contributor to the Swedish public radio station Sveriges Radio.

Fredriksson translated many works into Swedish, including by Ulrich Beck, John N. Gray, Jürgen Habermas, Josef Haslinger, Adolf Muschg, Seymour Papert, Judith Schalansky, Raoul Schrott and Immanuel Wallerstein.