Per Olov Enquist

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Enquist presenting himself at the Gothenburg bookfair in 2012.

Per Olov Enquist (23 September 1934 – 25 April 2020),<ref name="svtobit">Template:Cite web</ref> also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He had worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.

Biography

Enquist was born and raised in Template:Ill, 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.<ref name="ExpressenObituary">Template:Cite web</ref> He studied at Uppsala University, receiving a degree in the history of literature.<ref name="SvDObituary">Template:Cite news</ref>

During his time in Uppsala he started writing, his first novel Kristallögat being published in 1961, and became a newspaper journalist.<ref name="ExpressenObituary" /> 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.<ref name="ExpressenObituary" /><ref name="AftonbladetObituary">Template:Cite web</ref> Enquist was to write several more novels based on true events. Kapten Nemos bibliotek He lived in Denmark from 1978 to 1993 where he was married to Danish journalist Lone Bastholm. (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 Pentecostal Lewi Pethrus; while Boken om Blanche och Marie (2004) was based on the friendship of Marie Curie and mental patient Marie "Blanche" Wittman.<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /><ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Norstedts" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards for his writing have included the Dobloug Prize in 1988,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Selma Lagerlöf Prize in 1997,<ref name="Norstedts">Template:Cite web</ref> and the Italian Flaiano Prize in 2002.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Besides books and stage plays, Enquist also wrote screenplays for motion pictures, including Pelle Erövraren (1987) and Hamsun (1996),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="27thGuldbagge">Template:Cite web</ref> He also received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize as well as the Nelly Sachs Prize in 2003 for The Visit of the Royal Physician.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="SvDObituary" /> Enquist was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2009 and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize in 2010.<ref name="ExpressenObituary" />

Enquist died on 25 April 2020 after a prolonged struggle with cancer.<ref name="dnobit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Bibliography

• Template:Interlanguage link (1961)<ref name="NorranObituary">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Template:Interlanguage link (1963)<ref name="Norstedts" />
• Template:Interlanguage link (1964).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1964). Written under the pseudonym "Peter Husberg" along with Torsten Ekbom and Leif Nylén.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Template:Interlanguage link (1966)<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Template:Interlanguage link (1966)<ref name="ExpressenObituary" />
• Legionärerna: En roman om baltutlämningen (1968)<ref name="NorranObituary" />
• Template:Interlanguage link (1971)<ref name="AftonbladetObituary" />
• Template:Interlanguage link (1972).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1974).<ref name="Norstedts" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1975)<ref name="AftonbladetObituary" />
• Template:Interlanguage link (1976).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1978).<ref name="AftonbladetObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Mannen på trottoaren (1979).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1980).<ref name="ExpressenObituary" /> Based on the myth of Phaedra. Template:ISBN
• Från regnormarnas liv (1981)<ref name="Norstedts" />
• En triptyk (1981). A collection of his works Tribadernas natt, Till Fedra, and Från regnormarnas liv.<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1982).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Strindberg. Ett liv (1984).<ref name="ExpressenObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1985).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Två reportage om idrott (1986).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Protagoras sats (1987).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1988).<ref name="ExpressenObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1991).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (1992).<ref name="Norstedts" /> Template:ISBN
• Bildmakarna (1998)<ref name=":0" />
• Livläkarens besök (1999).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (2001).<ref name="AftonbladetObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (2003)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Template:Interlanguage link (2004).<ref name="Nationalencyklopedin" /> Template:ISBN English translation as The Book about Blanche and Marie, 2006 Template:ISBN
• Ett annat liv ("A different life", autobiography) (2008).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN
• Template:Interlanguage link (2010)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Template:Interlanguage link (2013).<ref name="NorranObituary" /> Template:ISBN

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