Verner von Heidenstam

Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 Julai 1859 - 20 Mei 1940) ialah seorang penyair, novelis dan pemenang Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan Sweden pada tahun 1916.[1] Beliau ialah ahli Akademi Sweden dari tahun 1912.[2] Puisi dan karya prosa beliau dipenuhi dengan kegembiraan yang besar dalam kehidupan, kadangkala dipenuhi dengan sejarah dan pemandangan Sweden, khususnya aspek fizikalnya.

Verner von Heidenstam
Portrait by Johan Krouthén, 1931
Portrait by Johan Krouthén, 1931
LahirCarl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
(1859-07-06)6 Julai 1859
Olshammar, Örebro County, Sweden
Meninggal dunia20 Mei 1940(1940-05-20) (umur 80)
Övralid, Östergötland, Sweden
PekerjaanPoet, novelist
WarganegaraSwedish
AnugerahNobel Prize in Literature
1916
PasanganEmilia Uggla (m. 1880, d. 1893); Olga Wiberg (m. 1893, div.); Greta Sjöberg (m. 1900, div.)
SaudaraGustaf von Heidenstam (father)

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Verner von Heidenstam pada 1915
  • Från Col di Tenda till Blocksberg , pictures of travel (1888)
  • Vallfart och vandringsår (1888)
  • Renässans (1889)
  • Endymion (1889, novel)
  • Hans Alienus (1892)
  • Dikter (1895)
  • Karolinerna (The Charles Men, 1897–98, novel)
  • Sankt Göran och draken (1900)
  • Klassizität und Germanismus (published in German, Vienna 1901)[3]
  • Heliga Birgittas pilgrimsfärd (Saint Bridget's Pilgrimage, 1901)
  • Ett folk (1902)
  • Skogen susar (The Forest Whispers, 1904)
  • Folkungaträdet (The Tree of the Folkungs, 2 volumes, 1905–1907)
  • Svenskarna och deras hövdingar (1910, historical lectures)
  • Nya Dikter (1915).

Karya dalam terjemahan bahasa Inggeris

  • A King and his Campaigners (1902)
  • The Soothsayer (1919)
  • Sweden's Laureate. Selected Poems of Verner Von Heidenstam (1919) - (trans. by Charles Wharton Stork)
  • The Birth of God (1920)
  • The Charles Men (1920) - (trans. by Charles Wharton Stork)
  • The Swedes and their Chieftains (1925) - (trans. by Charles Wharton Stork)
  • The Tree of the Folkungs (1925)

Rujukan sunting

  1. ^ Stork, Charles Wharton (1916). "Verner von Heidenstam," The Nation, Vol. CIII, No. 2683, ms. 509.
  2. ^ Warme, Lars G. (1996). Sejarah Kesusasteraan Sweden. Universiti Nebraska Press, ms. 276.
  3. ^ Here the author advocates a sort of artistic exclusiveness; Heidenstam appears as the champion of the classic spirit, which he considers essentially aristocratic, as opposed to the Germanic attitude which he considers democratic and reprehensible.

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  • Barton, Hildor Arnold (2003). Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905. SIU Press.
  • Larsson, Hans Emil (1909). "Swedish Literature," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 8 (3), pp. 313–329.

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