Claes Andersson
Claes Andersson (* May 30, 1937 in Helsinki ) is a Finland Swedish writer, doctor, politician and jazz musicians.
Life
Andersson studied medicine, specializing in psychiatry. He worked as a department physician at the hospital Tammiharju 1962-1967, Hesperia Hospital from 1967 to 1969 and as a senior physician in Veikkola sanatorium 1969 to 1973. His writing career began in 1962 with the poetry collection valve. Overall, his work includes more than twenty poetry collections, listening and viewing games as well as some works of fiction. His works have been translated and published in seven languages. In them Andersson exerts social criticism, renames human and social deficiencies, often accented with medical details.
Andersson was also politically active. From 1987 to 1999 and from 2007 to 2008 he sat in the Finnish parliament, first for the Democratic Union of the Finnish people, and then for the Left Alliance, whose spokesman he was from 1990 to 1998. As a candidate in the presidential elections of 1994, he received 3.8 percent of the vote. From 1995 to 1999 he was Minister of Culture of Finland. In 2008 he left for health reasons, the Reichstag.
Andersson is also a talented jazz pianist. He has released two albums and now lives in Espoo.
Works
Poetry
- Valve, 1962
- Som om ingenting hänt, 1964
- Staden heter Helsingfors, 1965
- Samhället vi dör i, 1967
- Det är inte att vara lätt villaägare i dessa tider, 1969
- Bli, Tillsammans, 1970
- Rumskamrater, 1974
- Jag har Mött the. Dikter 1962-1974, 1976
- Genome sprickorna i vårt ansikte, 1977
- Trädens sånger, 1979
- Tillkortakommanden, 1981
- Under 1984
- Det som blev ord i mig. Dikter 1962-1987, 1987
- Mina bästa dagar, 1987
- Som lyser mellan gallren, 1989
- Huden där the är som tunnast, 1991
- Dikter från Havets botting, 1993, ISBN 978-91-34-51523-9
- En lycklig mänska, 1996
- Dessa Underbara Beaches, förbi glidande, 2002
- Mörkret Regnar stjärnor, 2002
- Det är kallt, det brinner, 2004
- Tidens framfart, 2005
- The city is called Helsinki, 2007 ISBN 3-936271-29-1
- Lust, 2008
Prose
- OFCOM image erna, 1972
- The fagraste vår, 1976
- En mänska börjar likna sin själ, 1983
- Mina tolv politiska år, 2000
- Har du sett blomma öknen? , 2006
- Varje slag mitt hjärta SLAR, 2009
- Guds Profetiska plan, 2009, ISBN 1-4392-2568-0
Jazz CDs
- Claes Andersson Trio: These foolish things - Jazz, Long Play Records 2002!
- Claes Andersson's Orkester: Guldplattan, Alvia Records 2005