Horace Engdahl
© Helén Karlsson
Agent
Elisabet Brännström
Agent
Elisabet Brännström
Category: Fiction, General Non-Fiction
Horace Engdahl
Horace Engdahl is one of Sweden’s most prominent literary figures, and in 1999 he was elected to be Secretary of The Swedish Academy, a position he held for 10 years. He has written several essay collections on literature, dramatic writing and poetry and has also translated plays by Heinrich von Kleist and essays by Maurice Blanchlot.
Books by Horace Engdahl
Op. 101
Horace Engdahl
Horace Engdahl is back with OP 101, a new collection of the aphorisms, shorter essays and sudden notions that he has made into a genre of his own. This time, the author looks out from the balcony in his new hometown, onto a new existence that has sha…
The Last Pig
Horace Engdahl
The Last Pig is a book in two parts.The first is made up of aphorisms, an anachronistic form that fits this (culturally) conservative author like a glove. Lengthwise they range from one-line tweets to composed reflections. Though readers are as likel…
The Cigarette Afterwards
Horace Engdahl
Literary historian and critic, linguist and member of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl continues to study the world around him, investigating our daily struggles, literature and its critique, history and our dreams. In these short textual fragment…
