Tua Forsström, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Finnish writer who writes in Swedish, born 1947
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Place of Birth: Porvoo, Uusimaa Province, Finland
About Tua Forsström
- 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 seat 18.
- She will be inducted in December, 2019.
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