Per Olov Enquist
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Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, (23 September 1934 – 25 April 2020)[1] was a Swedish author.[2] He had worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.
Biography
Enquist was born and raised in Hjoggböle, a village in present-day Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten. He was the only son of a single mother, who became a widow when he was half a year old. In his youth, he was a promising athlete with a high jump personal best of 1.97 meters.[3] He studied at Uppsala University, receiving a degree in the history of literature.[4]
During his time in Uppsala he started writing, his first novel Kristallögat being published in 1961, and became a newspaper journalist.[3] Enquist won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1968 for The Legionnaires, his account of Sweden's deportation of Baltic-country soldiers at the end of the second world war, a novel which also became his international breakthrough.[3][5] Enquist was to write several more novels based on true events. Kapten Nemos bibliotek (1991) took inspiration from Template:Interlanguage link where two newly born boys were accidentally switched; The Visit of the Royal Physician (1999) was based on the life of Danish King Christian VII and his physician Johann Friedrich Struensee, and Struensee's political machinations and relationship with the King's wife Caroline Matilda in the 1770s; Lewis resa (2001) covered the life of Pentecostalist Lewi Pethrus; while Boken om Blanche och Marie (2004) was based on the friendship of Marie Curie and mental patient Marie "Blanche" Wittman.[6][7][8] Enquist's first stage play was Tribadernas natt (1975), a story about Swedish author August Strindberg, his soon-to-be ex-wife Siri von Essen, and von Essen's presumed lover Template:Interlanguage link.[9][10][11]
Awards for his writing have included the Dobloug Prize in 1988,[12] the Selma Lagerlöf Prize in 1997,[9] and the Italian Flaiano Prize in 2002.[13] Besides books and stage plays, Enquist also wrote screenplays for motion pictures, including Pelle Erövraren (1987) and Hamsun (1996),[14] and at the 27th Guldbagge Awards in 1993, Enquist was nominated for the award for Best Screenplay for the film Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem.[15] He also received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize as well as the Nelly Sachs Prize in 2003 for The Visit of the Royal Physician.[16][17] The Visit of the Royal Physician also became the first of two books by Enquist to be awarded the August Prize, the other being his 2008 autobiography Ett annat liv.[4] Enquist was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2009 and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize in 2010.[3]
Enquist died on 25 April 2020 after a prolonged struggle with cancer.[18][19]
Bibliography
- Template:Interlanguage link (1961)[20]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1963)[9]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1964).[20] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1964). Written under the pseudonym "Peter Husberg" along with Torsten Ekbom and Leif Nylén.[21]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1966)[6]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1966)[3]
- Legionärerna: En roman om baltutlämningen (1968)[20]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1971)[5]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1972).[6] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1974).[9] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1975)[5]
- Template:Interlanguage link (1976).[6] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1978).[5] Template:ISBN
- Mannen på trottoaren (1979).[22] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1980).[3] Based on the myth of Phaedra. Template:ISBN
- Från regnormarnas liv (1981)[9]
- En triptyk (1981). A collection of his works Tribadernas natt, Till Fedra, and Från regnormarnas liv.[6] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1982).[6] Template:ISBN
- Strindberg. Ett liv (1984).[3] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1985).[20] Template:ISBN
- Två reportage om idrott (1986).[6] Template:ISBN
- Protagoras sats (1987).[6] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1988).[3] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1991).[20] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (1992).[9] Template:ISBN
- Bildmakarna (1998)[7]
- Livläkarens besök (1999).[20] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (2001).[5] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (2003)[23]
- Template:Interlanguage link (2004).[6] Template:ISBN English translation as The Book about Blanche and Marie, 2006 Template:ISBN
- Ett annat liv ("A different life", autobiography) (2008).[20] Template:ISBN
- Template:Interlanguage link (2010)[24]
- Template:Interlanguage link (2013).[20] Template:ISBN
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