Sven Delblanc
Born	1931 Swan River, Manitoba, Canada
Died	1992 Sunnersta, Sweden
Occupation	associate professor of literature at Uppsala University, academic, author, translator

Sven Delblanc, born May 26, 1931 in Swan River, Manitoba, Canada, died December 15, 1992 in Sunnersta, Gottsunda Parish, Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish author and professor of literature. He's buried in Hammarby kyrkogård in Uppsala, Sweden.

Delblanc was an associate professor in the history of literature at Uppsala university beginning in 1965. He received The Aftonbladet Literature Prize in 1965. Before his death he was pointed out as the anonymous writer Bo Balderson. In Sweden Delblanc is considered one of the foremost Swedish authors of the later half of the twentieth Century, yet in English speaking countries he is almost unknown.

He was born in Canada but grew up in Trosa, Sweden. His parents divorced and the father, Siegfried Axel Herman Delblanc, remarried. His paternal grandfather, Friedrich Hermann Delblanc, a bookmaker in Stockholm, was from Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Sven Delblanc's maternal relatives were from Väse in Värmland in the West of Sweden. His maternal grandmother came from Norway. During the fourteenth century the Delblanc family lived in southern France in the vicinity of le Puy, but during the Napoleonic Era a forefather deserted and went to Germany. The maternal grandfather, Axel Nordfält, was the inspiration to the character Samuel in Samuels bok (1981).^[1]

The Swedish television series Hedebyborna (1978) is based on Delblancs series of novels Åminne (1970), Stenfågel (1973), Vinteride (1974) och Stadsporten (1976).

Contents 1 Bibliography 2 Television 3 Theater 4 Awards and merits 5 External links 6 Footnotes

[edit] Bibliography

Eremitkräftan (1962) Prästkappan (1963) Homunculus (1965) (English: Homunculus: A Magic Tale) Ära och minne (1965) Nattresa (1967) Åsnebrygga (1969) Åminne (1970) Zahak (1971) Trampa vatten (1972) Teatern brinner (1973) Stenfågel (1973) Primavera (1973) Vinteride (1974) Stadsporten (1976) Grottmannen (1977) Gunnar Emmanuel (1978) Gröna vintern (1978) Kära farmor (1979)

Stormhatten: Tre Strindbergsstudier (1979) Speranza (1980) (English: Speranza) Samuels bok (1981) Samuels döttrar (1982) Senecas död (1982) The Castrati: A Romantic Tale (1983) Jerusalems natt (1983) Kanaans land (1984) Maria ensam (1985) Fågelfrö (1986) Moria land (1987) Änkan (1988) Damiens (1988) Ifigenia (1990) Livets ax (1991) Slutord (1991) Homerisk hemkomst: Två essäer om Iliaden och Odysséen (1992) Agnar (1993)

[edit] Television

• 1968 - Lekar i kvinnohagen (manuscript)
• 1978 - Hedebyborna (manuscript)
• 1986 - Prästkappan (book)
• 1990 - Kära farmor (manuscript)
• 1992 - Maskeraden (manuscript)

[edit] Theater

• Kastrater (1977)

[edit] Awards and merits

• Aftonbladets litteraturpris (1965)
• BMF-plaketten (1970)
• Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris (1970)
• Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris(1970)
• Zornpriset (1970)
• Sixten Heymans pris (1974)
• BMF-plaketten (1981)
• Nordiska rådets litteraturpris (1982) for Samuels bok
• Övralidspriset (1985)
• Pilotpriset (1986)
• Kellgrenpriset (1989)
• Augustpriset (1991) for Livets ax
• BMF-plaketten (1991)
• Gerard Bonniers pris (1992)

[edit] External links

• Sven Delblanc at IMDb
• Sven Delblanc Society
• Pegasos' author information page

[edit] Footnotes

v • d • e Nordic Council Literature Prize laureates Eyvind Johnson (1962) · Väinö Linna (1963) · Tarjei Vesaas (1964) · William Heinesen / Olof Lagercrantz (1965) · Gunnar Ekelöf (1966) · Johan Borgen (1967) · Per Olof Sundman (1968) · Per Olov Enquist (1969) · Klaus Rifbjerg (1970) · Thorkild Hansen (1971) · Karl Vennberg (1972) · Veijo Meri (1973) · Villy Sørensen (1974) · Hannu Salama (1975) · Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson (1976) · Bo Carpelan (1977) · Kjartan Fløgstad (1978) · Ivar Lo-Johansson (1979) · Sara Lidman (1980) · Snorri Hjartarson (1981) · Sven Delblanc (1982) · Peter Seeberg (1983) · Göran Tunström (1984) · Antti Tuuri (1985) · Rói Patursson (1986) · Herbjørg Wassmo (1987) · Thor Vilhjálmsson (1988) · Dag Solstad (1989) · Tomas Tranströmer (1990) · Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1991) · Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir (1992) · Peer Hultberg (1993) · Kerstin Ekman (1994) · Einar Már Guðmundsson (1995) · Øystein Lønn (1996) · Dorrit Willumsen (1997) · Tua Forsström (1998) · Pia Tafdrup (1999) · Henrik Nordbrandt (2000) · Jan Kjærstad (2001) · Lars Saabye Christensen (2002) · Eva Ström (2003) · Kari Hotakainen (2004) · Sjón (2005) · Göran Sonnevi (2006) · Sara Stridsberg (2007) · Naja Marie Aidt (2008)