Jesper Svenbro

Jesper Svenbro 2011.

Jesper Svenbro (born March 10, 1944, in Landskrona, Scania) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.

Svenbro 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 (poetry magazine) and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press.

References

• Jesper Svenbro, official presentation at Centre Louis Gernet
• "SvD:s litteraturpristagare pendlar mellan samtiden och antiken", interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 28 November 2005.
• "Nya ledamöter i Svenska Akademien", official press release from the Swedish Academy

Preceded by Östen Sjöstrand

Swedish Academy, Seat No.8 2006-

Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Svenbro, Jesper
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Short description	Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Date of birth	March 10, 1944
Place of birth	Landskrona, Sweden
Date of death	living
Place of death