Katarina Frostenson

KATARINA FROSTENSON is one of the most notable living Nordic poets. The author of over twenty books, her work has had a major influence on Swedish poetry since the 1980s. She has in addition written dramas, prose, and an opera libretto, and translted works by Duras, Bataille, Bove, and Michaux. Frostenson has received nearly every literary prize in Sweden and many across European. Her writing has been translated into over a dozen languages ranging from French, German, Italian, and Spanish to Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, and Serbian. In 2003, she was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in recognition of her services to literature and in 2016 was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize--Scandinavia's most prestigious literary honor--for the present collection, which has also been translated into French and Italian. In 2019-2021, she released the autofictional trilogy K, F, and A, the first of which also premiered as a stage play in October 2022 at the Folkteatern in Gothenburg. Her latest book, Alma, appeared in 2023.