Sven Delblanc

Sven Delblanc
Born	Sven Delblanc (1931-05-26)26 May 1931 Swan River, Manitoba, Canada
Died	15 December 1992(1992-12-15) (aged 61) Sunnersta, Sweden
Resting place	Hammarby kyrkogård
Occupation	associate professor of literature, academic, author, translator
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	Uppsala University
Period	1962–1993
Genres	Prose
Notable works	Samuels bok

Sven Delblanc, born May 26, 1931 in Swan River, Manitoba, Canada, died December 15, 1992 in Sunnersta, Gottsunda Parish, Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish author and professor of literature. He is buried in Hammarby kyrkogård in Uppsala, Sweden.

Delblanc was an associate professor in the history of literature at Uppsala university beginning in 1965. He received the Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 1965. Before his death he was pointed out as the anonymous writer Bo Balderson.

In Sweden Delblanc is considered one of the foremost Swedish authors of the later half of the twentieth Century, yet in English-speaking countries he is almost unknown.

He was born in Canada but grew up in Trosa, Sweden. His parents divorced and the father, Siegfried Axel Herman Delblanc, remarried. His paternal grandfather, Friedrich Hermann Delblanc, a bookmaker in Stockholm, was from Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Sven Delblanc's maternal relatives were from Väse in Värmland in the West of Sweden. His maternal grandmother came from Norway. During the fourteenth century the Delblanc family lived in southern France in the vicinity of le Puy, but during the Napoleonic Era a forefather deserted and went to Germany. The maternal grandfather, Axel Nordfält, was the inspiration to the character Samuel in Samuels bok (1981).^[1]

The Swedish television series Hedebyborna (1978) is based on Delblanc's series of novels Åminne (1970), Stenfågel (1973), Vinteride (1974) and Stadsporten (1976).

Bibliography

Eremitkräftan (1962)
Prästkappan (1963)
Homunculus (1965) (English: Homunculus: A Magic Tale)
Ära och minne (1965)
Nattresa (1967)
Åsnebrygga (1969)
Åminne (1970)
Zahak (1971)
Trampa vatten (1972)
Teatern brinner (1973)
Stenfågel (1973)
Primavera (1973)
Vinteride (1974)
Kastrater (1975)
Stadsporten (1976)
Grottmannen (1977)
Gunnar Emmanuel (1978)
Gröna vintern (1978)
Kära farmor (1979)

Stormhatten: Tre Strindbergsstudier (1979)
Speranza (1980) (English: Speranza)
Samuels bok (1981)
Samuels döttrar (1982)
Senecas död (1982)
Jerusalems natt (1983)
Kanaans land (1984)
Maria ensam (1985)
Fågelfrö (1986)
Moria land (1987)
Änkan (1988)
Damiens (1988)
Ifigenia (1990)
Livets ax (1991)
Slutord (1991)
Homerisk hemkomst: Två essäer om Iliaden och Odysséen (1992)
Agnar (1993)

Television

1968 – Lekar i kvinnohagen (manuscript)
1978 – Hedebyborna (manuscript)
1986 – Prästkappan (book)
1990 – Kära farmor (manuscript)
1992 – Maskeraden (manuscript)

Theater

Kastrater (1977)

Awards and merits

Aftonbladets litteraturpris (1965)
BMF-plaketten (1970)
Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris (1970)
Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris(1970)
Zornpriset (1970)
Sixten Heymans pris (1974)
BMF-plaketten (1981)
Nordiska rådets litteraturpris (1982) for Samuels bok
Övralidspriset (1985)
Pilotpriset (1986)
Kellgrenpriset (1989)
Augustpriset (1991) for Livets ax
BMF-plaketten (1991)
Gerard Bonniers pris (1992)

Footnotes

↑ Delblanc, Sven. Livets ax. Bonniers, 1991. p. 84.

External links

Sven Delblanc at IMDb
Sven Delblanc Society
Petri Liukkonen. "Sven Delblanc". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.

Nordic Council Literature Prize winners

1960s	1962: The Days of His Grace – Eyvind Johnson 1963: Under the North Star 3: Reconciliation – Väinö Linna 1964: The Ice Palace – Tarjei Vesaas 1965: From Hell to Paradise – Olof Lagercrantz and The Good Hope – William Heinesen 1966: Diwan on the Prince of Emgion – Gunnar Ekelöf 1967: Nye noveller – Johan Borgen 1968: Flight of the Eagle – Per Olof Sundman 1969: The Legionnaires – Per Olov Enquist

1970s	1970: Anna, I, Anna – Klaus Rifbjerg 1971: Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves & Islands of Slaves – Thorkild Hansen 1972: Sju ord på tunnelbanan – Karl Vennberg 1973: Kersantin poika – Veijo Meri 1974: Uden mål – og med – Villy Sørensen 1975: Siinä näkijä missä tekijä – Hannu Salama 1976: Að laufferjum & Að brunnum – Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson 1977: I de mörka rummen, i de ljusa – Bo Carpelan 1978: Dalen Portland – Kjartan Fløgstad 1979: Pubertet – Ivar Lo-Johansson

1980s	1980: Vredens barn – Sara Lidman 1981: Hauströkkrið yfir mér – Snorri Hjartarson 1982: Samuels bok – Sven Delblanc 1983: Om fjorten dage – Peter Seeberg 1984: The Christmas Oratorio – Göran Tunström 1985: A Day in Ostrobothnia – Antti Tuuri 1986: Líkasum – Rói Patursson 1987: Hudløs himmel – Herbjørg Wassmo 1988: Justice Undone – Thor Vilhjálmsson 1989: Roman 1987 – Dag Solstad

1990s	1990: For the Living and the Dead – Tomas Tranströmer 1991: The Sun, My Father – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää 1992: Night Watch – Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir 1993: Byen og verden – Peer Hultberg 1994: Blackwater – Kerstin Ekman 1995: Angels of the Universe – Einar Már Guðmundsson 1996: Hva skal vi gjøre i dag og andre noveller – Øystein Lønn 1997: Bang. En roman om Herman Bang – Dorrit Willumsen 1998: After Having Spent a Night Among Horses – Tua Forsström 1999: Queen's Gate – Pia Tafdrup

2000s	2000: Drømmebroer – Henrik Nordbrandt 2001: The Discoverer – Jan Kjærstad 2002: The Half Brother – Lars Saabye Christensen 2003: Revbensstäderna – Eva Ström 2004: Juoksuhaudantie – Kari Hotakainen 2005: The Blue Fox – Sjón 2006: The Ocean – Göran Sonnevi 2007: Drömfakulteten – Sara Stridsberg 2008: Baboon – Naja Marie Aidt 2009: I Curse the River of Time – Per Petterson

2010s	2010: Purge – Sofi Oksanen 2011: Between the Trees – Gyrðir Elíasson 2012: Days in the History of Silence – Merethe Lindstrøm 2013: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord – Kim Leine 2014: Mirage 38 – Kjell Westö 2015: Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams & Weariness – Jon Fosse

List of Nordic Council's Literature Prize winners and nominees

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