Hjalmar Gullberg

Hjalmar Gullberg was born in Malmö on 30 May 1898, out of wedlock, and was raised by foster parents. A student at Lund, he edited the student review and published his first poems there. Head of Swedish Radio Theatre from 1936 to 1950, he translated the Greek tragedians, Aristophanes and Spanish-language poets. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1940, to the chair of Selma Lagerlöf, and awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund in 1944, he was struck by an illness that gradually paralysed him and took his own life on 19 July 1961, at the age of sixty-three.

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• PoetryKärlek i tjugonde sekletHjalmar Gullberg · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature