About the author

Tua Birgitta Forsström (born 2 April 1947) is a Finnish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape, travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work, sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection After Spending a Night Among Horses (Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, they are placed as interludes in a sequence of pieces and sit alone on the page, without direct reference to their source on the page, leaving this to a Notes & Quotations section at the end of the book.

She published her first book in 1972, A Poem about Love and Other Things (En dikt om kärlek och annat). Her breakthrough into the English-speaking world came in 1987 with her sixth collection, Snow Leopard (Snöleopard), which was translated into the English by David McDuff and published by Bloodaxe Books. In 1990 the book won a Poetry Book Society Translation Award in the United Kingdom. In 2006, I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty was published by Bloodaxe Books, with translations from David McDuff and Stina Katchadourian. The collection contains Snow Leopard (Snöleopard) (1987), The Parks (Parkerna) (1992), After Spending a Night Among Horses (Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) (1997) and a new poem sequence called Minerals.

In 2019 Forsström was elected a member of Swedish Academy succeeding Katarina Frostenson at the seat 18.

En aften i oktober roede jeg ud på søen & Optegnelser

En aften i oktober roede jeg ud på søen & Optegnelser er de to seneste digtsamlinger af en af Nordens mest anerkendte og prisbelønnede digtere, her samlet i én bog, oversat i et samarbejde mellem Maja Lucas og Kamilla Löfström.

Tua Forsström fører optegnelser over sansninger, impulser og hændelser, linjer fra en bog, en melodistump, en skæv replik eller en halvt ubevidst tanke, som dukker op som i en drøm. Og over den ubærlige sorg over at miste barnebarnet Vanessa:

Skyerne gråden og tågen Vanessa 
Løber vand langs kinderne halsen 
Græder til gråden holder op med at græde 

Tua Forsström debuterede i 1972 med En dikt om kärlek och annat. Siden har hun skrevet en række gennemmusikalske digtsamlinger, ofte med rå, men smukke naturmotiver, som i gennembruddet Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar (1997), der blev tildelt Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris. Hun har modtaget en lang række priser og er desuden medlem af Det Svenske Akademi.
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Edition1
Printed pages96
Publish date23 Apr 2020
Published byForlaget Arabesk
Languagedan
ISBN print9788793819016