Kristina Lugn

Kristina Lugn at the Stockholm City Theatre, on International Women's Day 2008

Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn (Swedish: [kɹisˌtiːna ˈlɵŋːn]; born 14 November 1948) is a Swedish poet[1] and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.[2][3]

Life and career

Lugn was born in Tierp, Uppland and was raised in Skövde, Västergötland, and after finishing her academic education she has devoted her time to poetry, as literary critic and a playwright.[4] Since 1972 she has published seven books of poetry. Her plays have been staged at Dramaten (the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre),[5] Stockholm City Theatre, and at Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra. Much appreciated by the Swedish audience, she touches subjects of loneliness, death and middle-age crises with irony, cynicism and black humour.[6] Some of her poetry has been translated into Serbian by Eleonora Luthander.[7]

From 1997 to 2011, she ran the small independent theatre Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm (at the address of Brunnsgatan 4), established by the popular Swedish actor Allan Edwall. After 2011 it was run by her daughter, the author Martina Montelius.[8][9]

Awards and distinctions

On 20 December 2006, Lugn was elected into the Swedish Academy to replace Lars Gyllensten in chair 14.[4]

She has won awards including the Doblouska prize in 1999, the Selma Lagerlöf Foundation literature prize in 1999, the Bellman prize in 2002, the Gustaf Fröding society's lyrics prize in 2007, and the Övralids prize in 2009.[4]

Bibliography – a selection

Plays – a selection

Notes

  1. ↑ Her surname "Lugn" also means "calm" in Swedish; a double meaning she jokes with and uses, as here and in other works.

References

  1. ↑ "Du ska få ett Panoramafönster ~ Kristina Lugn ( 1948- )". Poeter.se. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Lundborg, Beatrice (6 April 2014). "Kristina Lugn – det sista geniet". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Ekman, Michel (25 November 2010). "Kristina Lugn mellan dikt och verklighet". Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Vilhelmsen, Isabell (2012). "Lugn, Kristina". Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Kristina Lugn skriver nytt för Dramaten". Svenska Dagbladet. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  6. ↑ ""Författarskapet är min enda räddning från mig själv"". Svenska Dagbladet. 20 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Diktogram Dikter med sinnesglädje och estradpoetisk energi". Svenska Dagbladet. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Om Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra". Brunnsgatan Fyra. 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  9. ↑ Lisinski, Tomas (14 October 1997). "Brunnsgatan Fyra med Lugn. Ny ledning. Kristina Lugn och Edwalls barn inviger med "Nattorienterarna" som hon skrivit själv". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

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Preceded by
Lars Gyllensten		 Swedish Academy,
Seat No.14
2006- 		Succeeded by
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