The Centre for Scandinavian Studies is happy to invite you to meet Bengt Jangfeldt, a prominent Swedish slavicist, translator and writer.
BJ has written books about B. Pasternak, V. Mayakovsky, O. Mandelštam, R. Jakobson, D. Harms, Josif Brodsky, and published anthologies of Russian poetry. In 1982 his published in Russian correspondence between Mayakovsky and Lili Brik (also published in Swedish in 1984) became a classic book (published in other languages as well). In 2007 he published a book on Mayakovsky and his environment, later translated into Russian, French and other languages (the English edition is considered to be "the first comprehensive biography of Mayakovsky"), it was awarded the highest Swedish literary prize Augustpriset (August [Strindberg]) prize). In 2017 BJ published a book "Vi och dem. Bengt Jangfeldt om Ryssland som idé' [Us and Them. Bengt Jangfeldt on Russia as an Idea]. In 2022 after the war started, it was published a second time and translated into many languages. Bengt Jangfeldt is also the author of books on Axel Munthe (for which he received the prize of the Swedish Academy), Raoul Wallenberg, the Nobel family, has written many articles (both journalistic and scientific (BJ worked for many years at Stockholm University)), see more here Välkommen - Bengt Jangfeldt. BJ has been awarded many literary prizes, and in 2021 he was awarded the King of Sweden's gold medal for his outstanding work as a writer and translator.
You are welcome to meet Bengt Jangfeldt on Tuesday, October 22:
11.30, 314 AB aud. in Swedish about Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jewish lives and later died in the Russian Gulag. (BJ will speak about RW in English at other events in Vilnius and Kaunas).
13.00, 314 AB aud. in Russian about Josif Brodsky - memories, poetics, translation problems.
We thank Swedish Embassy for this opportunity.
We hope to see you at the lectures!