Peter Sandelin

Peter Sandelin was born in Jakobstad on 30 May 1930, the son of a doctor; his family was evacuated to Pori during the war. He passed his school-leaving examination at the Swedish evening lyceum in Helsinki in 1952, studied painting at the Free Art School and then at the University of Helsinki, and from 1954 was a literary and art critic for Hufvudstadsbladet and a correspondent for the review Paletten. An abstract painter, he had a retrospective at the Amos Anderson museum in 2000. He received the Swedish Academy's prize for Finland in 2005 and died in Helsinki on 16 February 2019.

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• PoetryUr svalans loggbokPeter Sandelin · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature