Sven Delblanc
Sven Delblanc | |
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| Born | Sven Delblanc 26 May 1931 Swan River, Manitoba, Canada |
| Died | 15 December 1992 (aged 61) , Sweden |
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| 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 , , Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish author and professor of literature. He is buried in in Uppsala, Sweden.
Delblanc was an associate professor in the history of literature at Uppsala university beginning in 1965. He received the in 1965. Before his death he was pointed out as the anonymous writer .
He was born in Canada but grew up near Vagnhärad, 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.[1] The maternal grandfather, Axel Nordfält, was the inspiration to the character Samuel in Samuels bok (1981).[2]
The Swedish television series (1978) is based on Delblanc's series of novels Åminne (1970), Stenfågel (1973), Vinteride (1974) and Stadsporten (1976).
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Television[]
- 1968 – (manuscript)
- 1978 – (manuscript)
- 1986 – (book)
- 1990 – (manuscript)
- 1992 – (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[]
External links[]
- Sven Delblanc at IMDb
- Sven Delblanc Society
- Petri Liukkonen. "Sven Delblanc". Books and Writers
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- 1931 births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century Swedish novelists
- Swedish-language writers
- Writers from Manitoba
- People from Swan River, Manitoba
- Nordic Council Literature Prize winners
- Litteris et Artibus recipients
- Swedish male novelists
- 20th-century Swedish male writers