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Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Jesper Svenbro | |
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![]() Jesper Svenbro in 2011. | |
Born | Bengt Åke Jesper Svenbro 10 March 1944 Landskrona, Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Lund University |
Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 8) | |
Assumed office 20 December 2006 | |
Preceded by | Östen Sjöstrand |
Svenbro was born in Landskrona, Scania, Sweden. He was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include Phrasikleia: anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne (1988). He is director of research at Centre Louis Gernet (CRCSA) in Paris. In 2006, he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding the poet Östen Sjöstrand in seat 8.
His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press. In 2010, Svenbro was awarded the Illis quorum in the eighth size by the Swedish government.
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