Göran Tunström
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Category: Fiction
Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström (1937-2000) is one of the most read and loved loved authors in Sweden and considered one of the most important Swedish authors of the late 20th century. He was born in Sunne in the county of Värmland. Tunström has as been awarded a number of literary awards, including Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize in 1976, the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1984, the Selma Lagerlöf Prize in 1987, the Nils Ferlin Prize in 1998 and the August Prize in 1998. He is published in some 25 languages.
Much of what he wrote is based on his hometown, Sunne, but it is only a venue for destinies of a more universal nature and for questions of a deep existential nature. His novels THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO and THE THIEF can both be incorporated under the heading “the return of storytelling in Swedish literature”, and one here sees a clear kinship with other great storytelling från Värmland by the Nobel Prize Winner Selma Lagerlöf. Tunström is also recognized for his complex exploration of interpersonal relationships through a style that is reminiscent and sometimes compared to Gabriel García Márquez magical realism. At his death, Göran Tunström left behind an unfinished manuscript, which he began writing in 1996. TRIALS FOR A CENTURY was published in 2002.
Books by Göran Tunström
THE PRIEST’S KID
Göran Tunström
The kid is Göran Tunström himself, growing up in Sunne, in the middle of the world. It’s about childhood’s curious joy of discovery and strange events, about friends and girlfriends, about the death of the father that makes everything fall apart, to…
Famous Men That Have Visited Sunne
Göran Tunström
This is the last novel published during Göran Tunströms lifetime and won the August Prize in 1998. Swedish, as well as international, celebrities appear in the town of Sunne during a week in September in the 60´s, and take part in the story. This is…
The Christmas Oratorio
Göran Tunström
In Sunne all, once again, are gathered to perform Bach’s jubilant Christmas Oratorio. From there, the story expands: it spans over three generations, begins in the thirties and ends today. The plot moves between Värmland and its geographical opposite…
The Thief
Göran Tunström
In Sunne in Värmland, fat Ida Pripp meets lazy Fredrik Jonson Lök and is enchanted, seduced and humiliated. Twelve children are born in the meager house on Torvnäs, but this is foremost the story of Johan, the thirteenth child born in the meager hous…
GLITTERING
Göran Tunström
Pétur is born on the slope of an Icelandic volcano. His father, Halldór, takes care of him and fills his childhood with tales which Pétur carries with him in his travels around the world as an adult. It’s about longing, saying farewell to life, but a…
