{"id":309,"date":"2006-11-14T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-11-14T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:39:00","slug":"goran-sonnevi-gets-nordic-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/goran-sonnevi-gets-nordic-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran Sonnevi gets Nordic Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>I\u2019ll be on the road for the rest of the week & probably won\u2019t get around to post. The article below on Swedish poet Sonnevi is taken from the Danish Norden<\/a> magazine & appeared on 1 November this year:<\/div>\n

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The Nordic Council Literature Prize 2006 was officially presented to the Swedish author G\u00f6ran Sonnevi on Wednesday. The coveted literature prize was awarded at a festive ceremony in Tivoli\u2019s Concert Hall in conjunction with the Nordic Council\u2019s Session in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

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The Swedish author won the prize for his poetry collection \u2018The Ocean\u2019. G\u00f6ran Sonnevi was chosen from amongst 12 nominated authors from the other Nordic countries in the spring. Two authors from Denmark, Claus Beck-Nielsen and Thomas Boberg, were among those nominated but it was the Swedish author who ran with the prestigious prize worth DKK 350,000.<\/p>\n

The President of the Nordic Council, Ole Stavad, presented the prize to G\u00f6ran Sonnevi who was clearly moved.
The evening\u2019s literary principal character used his acceptance speech to read aloud from his poems which revolved around love, death and life. Themes which are recurrent in the great Swedish poet\u2019s works, and which are strongly represented in his poetry collection \u2018The Ocean\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019The Ocean\u2019 is awash with words. You can submerge into them and let them swallow you up. It spans a life and a poetry which is still alive, is not over yet, and is still searching. Sonnevi writes poetry with an intense necessity, in constant dialogue with social and political events as well as dealing with personal issues like guilt and responsibility\u201d, the Adjudication Committee wrote in its motivation earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

The Nordic Council\u2019s Literature Prize was awarded for the first time in 1962 and it is three years since the Literature Prize was awarded to a Swedish author. The prize was awarded at the same time as the Nordic Council\u2019s Film Prize (the Swedish film \u2018Zozo\u2019), the Nordic Council\u2019s Music Prize (composer Natasha Barrett from Norway) and the Nordic Council\u2019s Nature and Environment Prize (professor and author Bogi Hansen from the Faroes).<\/p>\n

Karin Arvidsson
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