Gunnar Ekelöf

Gunnar Ekelöf was born in Stockholm on 15 September 1907, to a mother from the nobility and a father, a stockbroker, whom syphilis drove into madness and who died during his childhood. He studied oriental languages in London and then in Uppsala, and discovered modernism and Sufi poetry in Paris. The Kreuger crash, in 1932, cost him most of his fortune, which, he said, had made a man of him; from then on he lived by his pen and by translations of French poetry. He entered the Swedish Academy in 1958 and died in Sigtuna on 16 March 1968.

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• PoetryFärjesångGunnar Ekelöf · 1941Literature