Gösta Ågren
Finnish poet, film director and translator (1936-2020)
Sven Gösta Ågren (August 3, 1936 – June 24, 2020) was a Finnish author. He won the Finlandia Prize in 1988 for Jär.[1][2] Ågren wrote his works in Swedish.[3] He was known for his left-wing views.[4]
Ågren died on June 24, 2020, aged 83.[5]
Works
change- Ågren, Gösta (1992). A Valley in the Midst of Violence: Selected Poems [En dal i våldet]. Translated by David McDuff. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 1-85224-236-1.
References
change- ↑ Bredsdorff, Elias (1990). Scandinavica, vols. 29–30. Academic Press.
- ↑ "Literary Awards of the Nordic Countries: Finland – The Finlandia Prize Archived 2017-10-28 at the Wayback Machine", ScandinavianBooks.com, retrieved 20 January 2010
- ↑ Poetics For The Gospels? Rethinking Narrative Criticism by Petri Merenlahti, p. 36.
- ↑ History of Finnish Literature by Jaakko Ahokas, p. 433.
- ↑ Gösta Ågren är död. Hufvudstadsbladet. (in Swedish)