Marie Silkeberg

Marie Silkeberg, born June 3, 1961 in Denmark, is a Swedish writer and translator. She is primarily a poet but has also written drama and essays, and has translated, among others, Marguerite Duras, the Danish poets Inger Christensen, Pia Tafdrup, and Mette Moestrup, and the American poets Susan Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop, Claudia Rankine (together with Jenny Tunedal), and Alice Notley. She has been a supervisor in literary design at the University of Gothenburg and has been a professor there since 2010. In 2003, she was awarded the Swedish Radio Poetry Prize. In 2015 she was a resident in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.^[1] In 2018 she held a fellowship at MacDowell.^[2] An English translation of a selection of Silkeberg's poems was published in 2021 by Terra Nova Press, an imprint of MIT Press, as Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems.^[3]

Works[edit]

• 1990 in literature – Komma och gå
• 1994 in literature – Akustisk Alhambra
• 1997 in literature – Imorgon, och imorgon
• 2003 in literature – Sockenplan, säger hon^[4]
• 2005 in literature – Avståndsmätning (essäer)
• 2006 in literature – 23:23^[5]
• 2009 in literature – Ödeläggelse
• 2010 in literature – Material^[6]
• 2014 in literature – Till Damaskus (with Ghayath Almadhoun)^[7]
• 2017 in literature – Atlantis^[8]
• 2021 – Revolution House^[9]
• 2021 – Damscus, Atlantis: Selected Poems (English translation by Kelsi Vanada)^[10]

Poetry Films (with Ghayath Almadhoun)[edit]

• • Ödeläggelse IV Stockholm – Gaza, 2009
  • The City, 2012
  • Your Memory is My Freedom, 2012
  • The Celebration, 2014
  • SNOW, 2015

Prizes and Awards[edit]

• 1996 in literature – Stig Carlson Prize
• 1998 in literature – Albert Bonniers scholarship fund for younger and newer authors
• 2003 in literature – Karin Boyes literary prize
• 2003 in literature – Swedish Radio Poetry Prize
• 2006 in literature – Göteborgs-Postens literature prize
• 2007 in literature– Karl Vennbergs prize
• 2007 in literature – Kalleberger scholarship
• 2013 in literature – Sorescu prize
• 2017 in literature – Signe Ekblad-Eldhs prize

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