Hjalmar Gullberg

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Hjalmar Gullberg at his writing desk in the early 1940s.

Hjalmar Gullberg (30 May 1898 – 19 July 1961) was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish.

Gullberg was born in Malmö, Skåne. As a student at Lund University, he was the editor of the student magazine Lundagård. He was the manager of the Swedish Radio Theatre 1936-1950. In 1940 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy, and he also became an honorary doctor of philosophy at Lund University (1944).

A poem from Gullberg's book Kärlek i tjugonde seklet from 1933, called "Förklädd gud" ("God in disguise"), was set to music by the composer Lars-Erik Larsson in 1940. The resulting lyrical suite has become one of the most well-recognised and best loved pieces of music for choir and orchestra.

Gullberg committed suicide at Yddingesjön, Skåne.

Bibliography

• I en främmande stad (1927)
• Sonat (1929)
• Andliga övningar (1932)
• Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (1933)
• Ensamstående bildad herre. Tragicomic verse. (1935)
• Att övervinna världen (1937)
• 100 dikter; a selection from six volumes of verse (1939)
• Röster från Skansen (1941)
• Fem kornbröd och två fiskar (1942; includes Död amazon)
• Hymn till ett evakuerat Nationalmuseum (1942)
• Den heliga natten (1951)
• Dödsmask och lustgård (1952)
• Terziner i okonstens tid (1958)
• Ögon, läppar (1959)
• 50 dikter; a selection from three volumes of verse with an introduction by Carl Fehrman (1961)
• Gentleman, Single, Refined and selected poems, 1937 - 1959 by Hjalmar Gullberg and Judith Moffett. Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
• En anständig och ömklig comoedia. A play in three acts by Hjalmar Gullberg and Olle Holmberg (published 1984)
• Kärleksdikter (first edition with this title published 1967)
• Dikter. With an epilogue by Anders Palm (1985)

Selected translations and interpretations of other writers' work

• Aristophanes: Fåglarna (The Birds) (1928)
• Euripides: Hippolytos (Hippolytus) (1930)
• Euripides: Medea (1931)
• Aristophanes: Lysistrate (Lysistrata) (1932)
• Eurypides: Alkestis (Alcestis) (1933)
• Sophocles: Antigone (1935)
• Molière: Den girige (L'Avare/The Miser) (1935)
• Calderón: Spökdamen (La Dama Duende/The Phantom Lady) (1936)
• Alfred de Musset: Lek ej med kärleken (On ne badine pas avec l'amour) (1936)
• Gabriela Mistral: Dikter (1945)
• Federico García Lorca: Blodsbröllop (Bodas de sangre) (1946)
• Gabriela Mistral: Den heliga vägen (1949)
• Molière: Den inbillade sjuke (Le Malade imaginaire/The Hypochondriac) (translated for Sveriges Radio 1954)
• Gåsmors sagor (1955)
• Själens dunkla natt and other interpretations of foreign lyrics (1956)
• Aeschylus: Agamemnon (1960)
• Franskt 1600-tal (published posthumously in 1962 with an introduction by Olle Holmberg)
• William Shakespeare: Köpmannen i Venedig (The Merchant of Venice) (1964)
• William Shakespeare: Som ni behagar (As You Like It) (1964)

External links

• (Swedish) The Hjalmar Gullberg Society