Birgitta Trotzig

Birgitta Trotzig

1929-09-11
81 (2011-05-14)
Gothenburg, Sweden

Astri Birgitta Trotzig, nee Kjellén, was a Swedish author and literature critic. She held chair number 6 in the Swedish Academy between 1993 and 2011.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Astri Birgitta Trotzig, nee Kjellén, was a Swedish author and literature critic. She held chair number 6 in the Swedish Academy between 1993 and 2011.

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Kejsaren 1979 (9)

Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
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Kyrie 1965

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected.
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Birgitta Trotzig 1985

A conversation with the Swedish author Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011) , member of the Swedish Academy between 1993 and 2011. Trotzig's language is strongly driven and honored, often dark and hard-to-reach, but with a sharpness penetrating deeply into the reader susceptible to her prose. The main themes of her books are guilt and liberation, often with a Christian vocabulary, and the balance between ethics and ethics.