Lundkvist, Artur

Lundkvist, Artur

▪ Swedish writer and critic
in full  Artur Nils Lundkvist  
born March 3, 1906, Oderljunga, Swed.
died Dec. 11, 1991, Stockholm

      Swedish poet, novelist, and literary critic.

      Lundkvist grew up in a rural community, where he felt himself an outcast because of his appreciation for literature. He left school at age 10 and thereafter educated himself. He moved to Stockholm when he was 20 and published his first books of poems Glöd (1928; “Glowing Embers”) and Svart stad (1930; “Black City”). In the 1930s he became one of the foremost representatives of the Vitalist movement and participated in the group Fem Unga (“Five Young Men”). His affirmation of life and his idealization of man's instincts and passions took the form of a sexual mysticism not unlike that espoused by the English novelist D.H. Lawrence. In the shadow of World War II Lundkvist's writings became marked by pessimism and by a longing for a new kind of human solidarity. The surrealistic imagery found in his earlier poetry had been toned down by the time that Korsväg (“Crossroads”) was published in 1942. Det talande trädet (1960; “The Talking Tree”) and Flykten och överlevandet (1977; “Escape and Survival”) are a combination of poetry and prose. Vallmor från Taschkent (1952; “Poppies from Tashkent”) and Så lever kuba (1965; “This is the Way Cuba Lives”) are travel books.

      No Swedish critic or writer introduced more literature from abroad than did Lundkvist through his criticism, essays, and translations. In 1934–35, as coeditor and founder of the literary magazine Karavan, with Gunnar Ekelöf, Lundkvist introduced T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and William Faulkner to Swedish readers. In 1968 he was elected to the Swedish Academy. In 1983, as one of the most influential members of the academy's jury for selecting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Lundkvist disputed the award of the literature prize to William Golding and generated a controversy by saying that the prize should have gone to Claude Simon (who received the award in 1985).

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