Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman Lillemor ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ɕæʂ ː e ː tin kman ], born August 27, 1933 Risinge, Östergötland County ) is one of the most respected writers in Sweden.

Life

Kerstin Ekman studied at Uppsala University. After that, she worked for several years in the film and as a teacher at a community college. In 1959 she joined (30 meters murder ) to the public with the detective novel trettio meter murder. More crime novels followed, but in the late 1960s she began more and more to be removed from the genre, and with the documentary novel Menedarna ( the perjury ) in 1970 and the description of the wilderness Mörker och blåbärsris (German Midsummer dark) in 1972 she succeeded literary breakthrough, in 1976 (Eng. the hot springs ), Änglahuset 1979 (Eng. the Angel House ) and En stad av ljus 1983 ( German city of light ) culminated in the Vallmsta tetralogy consisting of Häxringarana 1974 ( German fairy rings ), Springkällan, . The tetralogy is a description of the (industrial) development of a central Swedish town (modeled Katrineholms ) for a century, as they ausnahm for women. A number of women's fate is at the center.

1978 Ekman was elected to the Swedish Academy. On the occasion of the so-called Rushdie affair in 1989, in which they accused the Swedish Academy to respond to lame, they left, as well as Lars Gyllensten, the correlations of the Academy. Ekman no longer sees himself decidedly as a member of that Assembly; of the Academy, however, it is still considered as such, since it was impossible according to the rules of the Academy, to terminate a membership.

Late 70s Ekman moved with her husband, who had been a lecturer at the Mittuniversitetet (Sundsvall, Östersund and Härnösand ), to Norrland. The Nordic landscape, the people in Norrland, but also changes due to the modernization of society have become an important topic. Händelser vid vatten 1993 ( ger events on the water) and the 2003 finished Vargskinnet trilogy ( The wolf's clothing ), consisting of the novels Guds barmhärtighet (Eng. on black water), Sista rompan (Eng. The last rafts ) and Skraplotter to play in a mountain village in Jämtland and describe the development of the small settlement in the 20th century - again mainly due to the fate of women of three generations.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • German by Hedwig M. Binder: fibbers, Roman. Piper Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05544-4.
August Prize Nordic Council's Literature Prize Blackwater (novel) Perlentaucher List of members of the Swedish Academy Bo Ralph Anders Olsson Tomas Riad Sara Danius Jesper Svenbro Torgny Lindgren Peter Englund Gunnel Vallquist Kristina Lugn Kjell Espmark Horace Engdahl Integrated Authority File
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