Bo Carpelan

Bo Carpelan was born in Helsinki on 25 October 1926, into a family of barons; his father was a bank clerk. He studied literary history, defended in 1960 a thesis on a modernist poet and made his debut in poetry in 1946. A critic at the Hufvudstadsbladet from 1949 to 1964, he was deputy chief librarian of the city of Helsinki from 1964 to 1980, then a state professor-artist. A translator of Finnish poets into Swedish, he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1977, the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1997 and the European Prize for Literature in 2006. He died in Espoo on 11 February 2011.

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