Sonja Ã…kesson
Sonja Åkesson ( born April 19, 1926 in Buttle on Gotland; † May 5, 1977 in Halmstad ) was a Swedish writer and artist. She was known for her easy to understand, but socially critical poems.
Life
Sonja Åkesson debuted in 1957 with the poetry collection Situationer ( situations). She became known for her 1963 published collection of poetry Husfrid ( house of peace ). She writes in a distinctive style. Your laconically formulated socially critical poems about the lives of average women in their familiar surroundings are adapted everyday language and full of irony. They deal with the negative aspects of the present ( manipulation and commercialization, for example) or set, for example, the woman drastically distorted as grotesque counterpart to the beauty of the idea men (which affects glass veranda).
Their best-known poems are Självbiografi ( autobiography ) and Äktenskapsfrågan ( The issue of marriage), which begins with the line " vara vit mans slav " ( slave of a white man ). Självbiografi from the band Husfrid is a tribute to the poem Autobiography of Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
" While the man at Ferlinghetti believes in his vocation to the poet seems to have sovereignty over the Western Heritage and compares with Ikaros, the woman is at Åkesson passive and depressed, uneducated, and the wings of Icarus ' have given way to a hump. "
Åkesson also wrote lyrics, and because her poems are written in a very simple colloquial and thus easy to understand style, they provoked numerous musicians to song settings. At the 2010 released CD Sonja Akesson Tolkad Av ... for example sing among other Kajsa Gryt, Annika Norlin, Rebecka Törnqvist, Lisa Nilsson and Frida Hyvönen settings of her poetry.
Besides poetry written Åkesson stories, radio plays and texts for the theater and television. In addition, she worked as an artist. Pictures of her are, for example, in her book Hjärtat Hamrar, lungorna smälter (1972). Their first show they had in 1975 at the Museum Halland; her collages were exhibited in the National Gallery, Stockholm 2004.
Her works have been translated into English, among other things, Japanese, Icelandic and German. Your body of work is located in Sonja Åkesson - archive in the library in Hemse on Gotland. She received the 1969 and 1974 Ferlinpreis the literature award " De Nios stora pris ".
Sonja Åkesson last lived in Halmstad; she died in 1977 from liver cancer.