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Håkan Sandell (born 16 February 1962 in Västra Skrävlinge) is a Swedish poet.

Life and career

Håkan Sandell emerged in the 1980s as a member of Malmöligan, a group of poets based in Malmö, consisting of Sandell, Clemens Altgård, Per Linde, Kristian Lundberg, Lukas Moodysson and Martti Soutkari. Although diverse in style and subjects, the members were inspired by punk rock, the Danish poet Michael Strunge and differed from the politicised poetry that had dominated Sweden in the 1970s.^[1] The group disbanded in 1993 after which Sandell moved to Denmark, Ireland and eventually Norway.

In the 1990s, Sandell and Altgård wrote the pamphlet Om retrogardism ("on retrogardism"), in which they advocated a literature rooted in traditional expressions. Sandell has mentioned the painter Odd Nerdrum as an important influence for this direction away from modernism. The first Nerdrum painting he saw was Return of the Sun, through which he realised which qualities modernism was missing: "the pathetic, the heroic, the sentimental, the nostalgic, the decadent, the Luciferian, the declamatory, the dramatic, the Dantean! (Dantesque?), the Gothic, late Manierism, Romanticism, historicism, symbolism, etc."^[2]

A volume of Sandell's poetry titled Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999 - 2016 appeared in English in 2016, translated by Bill Coyle and published by Carcanet Press.^[3]

Selected bibliography

1981 – Cathy, poetry
1982 – Europé, poetry
1983 – En poets blod, poetry
1984 – Efter sjömännen ; Elektrisk måne, poetry
1986 – Johnny – en bokfilm, prose
1988 – Flickor, poetry
1990 – Skampåle, poetry
1991 – Dikter för analfabeter, poetry
1992 – Bestiarium, privat print
1994 – Fröer och undergång, poetry
1995 – Om retrogardism, pamphlet (with Clemens Altgård)
1995 – Mikkel Rävs skatt
1996 – Sjungande huvud, poetry
1999 – Midnattsfresken, poetry
2002 – Traditionens uppvaknande, essays
2002 - Så som skymningen älskar dig, translations from Amanda Aizpuriete
2003 – Oslo-Passionen, poetry
2003 – Gåvor : valda dikter 1984-2002, poetry
2004 – Begynnelser : en barndom i tjugotvå dikter, poetry
2006 – Skisser till ett århundrade, poetry
2009 – Gyllene dagar, poetry
2012 – Jag erkänner att jag levde upp mitt liv, translations
2013 – Ode till demiurgen, poetry

Accolades

2004 – Kallebergerstipendiet from the Swedish Academy
2007 – Sveriges Essäfonds pris from Föreningen för Sveriges Kulturtidskrifter
2010 – De Nios Vinterpris from Samfundet De Nio

References

^ Malmöhus, P4 (2016-09-14). "Punkpoeterna i Malmöligan återförenas". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). Retrieved 2016-10-26.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Sandell, Håkan (2016-06-10). "Definitive true art". The Carcanet Blog. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
^ "Sandell aktuell på engelska". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-10-26.