Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront of Swedish letters, with critics comparing him to William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus. His suicide at the age of thirty-one was a national tragedy. These upcoming events celebrate the author’s life, with guest appearances ranging from his daughter, the translator, and many other figures influential in Swedish literature.
Don’t forget to purchase your copy of Sleet before you go! This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories never before published in English, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Often narrated from a child's perspective, the stories give voice to childhood's tender state of receptiveness and joy tinged with longing and loneliness.
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| Acclaimed Swedish author Stig Dagerman (1923 - 1954) |
22 October 2013: A Swedish Literary Icon: The Writings of Stig Dagerman
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016
6:30-8:30pm; free; wine & cheese reception to follow
Novelist Siri Hustvedt, translator Steven Hartman, Professor of English at Mid-Sweden University, and PEN Translation Committee Chair Susan Bernofsky read and discuss Stig Dagerman's writings with moderator Ann Kjellberg, editor of Little Star.
The author's daughter, Lo Dagerman, will introduce a short documentary, Our Need for Consolation, based on Dagerman's classic essay and featuring actor Stellan Skarsgård.
Co-presented by the Consulate General of Sweden in New York and PEN American Center, in association with the American Scandinavian Society of New York.
More information at: https://www.facebook.com/events/512104298872407/
25 October 2013: A celebration of the work of Swedish author Stig Dagerman
Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus
7:30 p.m.
The celebration will feature readings and a discussion with Lo Dagerman, his daughter with Swedish movie star Anita Björk, and Steven Hartman, UAlbany Ph.D. graduate and translator of Dagerman's work into English. Short films based on Dagerman's stories, directed by the author's grandson, Dan Levy Dagerman, will also be screened. Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute.
Translator Steven Hartman, UAlbany Ph.D. graduate and former graduate assistant at the Writers Institute, has worked frequently with Lo Dagerman, and has translated and published a number of his stories in American literary magazines since the early 1990s. These translations have been collected in the new volume, Sleet (2013). Hartman, who lives and works in Sweden, is a founding member and chair of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) at the Royal Institute of Technology, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, in Stockholm, and professor of English at Linnaeus University in Kalmar.
The celebration will also feature two films by Dagerman's grandson, American filmmaker Dan Levy Dagerman, who has adapted two stories in translation by Steven Hartman: Our Need for Consolation (19 min., 2012), and The Games of Night (20 min., 2008).
More information can be found here
30 October 2013: Word Power: The Writings of Swedish Literary Icon Stig Dagerman
House of Sweden, 2900 K Street NW, Washington D.C. 20007
6:30pm; free
Award-winning novelist Alice McDermott, best-selling non-fiction writer Mark Kurlansky, and translator Steven Hartman, Professor of English Literature at Mid-Sweden University, read and discuss Stig Dagerman's writings with moderator Inger Arenander, of Swedish Public Radio.
The author's daughter, Lo Dagerman, will introduce a short documentary, Our Need for Consolation, based on Dagerman's classic essay and featuring actor Stellan Skarsgård.
Hosted by the Embassy of Sweden in cooperation with The Writer's Center.
More information at: http://www.culturecapital.com/event.php?id=26881
More information on Sleet can be found on our website and on our blog.
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