Lars Gyllensten

Lars Gyllensten

Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten (12 November 1921 – 25 May 2006) was a Swedish author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the "purity, vigour and majesty" of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year.

Gyllensten was born and grew up in a middle-class family in Stockholm, son of Carl Gyllensten and Ingrid Rangström, and nephew of Ture Rangström. He studied at the Karolinska Institute, becoming a doctor of medicine in 1953, and was an associate professor of histology there from 1955 to 1973.

His first written work, published under the pseudonym Jan Wictor in 1946, was a collection of poetry by Gyllensten and Torgny Greitz entitled "Camera Obscura", a straight-faced parody of Swedish modernist 1940s poetry. The Swedish Academy biography refers to his "dialectic" prose trilogy "Moderna myter" ("Modern myths", 1949), "Det blå skeppet" ("The blue ship", 1950) och "Barnabok" ("Childbook", 1952) as the "real" beginning of his authorship. [ [http://www.svenskaakademien.se/litiuminformation/site/page.asp?Page=1&IncPage=490&Destination=5 "Stol nr 14 - Lars Gyllensten"] , the [http://www.svenskaakademien.se Swedish academy website] . Accessed 21 June 2006.] His last work was published in 2004. He left the Karolinska Institute to become a full-time author in 1973. He has been described as a Swedish counterpart to Thomas Mann and Albert Camus. Few of his works have been translated into English, French or German.

He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1966, was a permanent secretary of the Academy from 1977 to 1986, served on the Swedish Academy's Nobel Prize committee from 1968 to 1987, became a member of the Nobel Foundation in 1979 (serving as chairman from 1987 to 1993), and was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Gyllensten left the Swedish Academy in 1989 as a result of its failure to support Salman Rushdie following the fatwa calling for Rushdie's death as a result of his controversial novel "The Satanic Verses". According to the rules of the Academy, Gyllensten remained a passive member for the remainder of his life.

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* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2229236,00.html Obituary] , "The Times", 17 June 2006
* [http://www.svenskaakademien.se/litiuminformation/site/page.asp?Page=3&IncPage=855&Destination=158 Chair no. 14 (Lars Gyllensten)] , at the official website of the Swedish Academy.


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