Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault was born on 5 March 1953 and is a Swedish poet and writer.
16 Facts About Katarina Frostenson
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Katarina Frostenson was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019.
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In 2003, Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in recognition of her services to literature.
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Katarina Frostenson is one of Sweden's foremost poets, whose style unites experimental, traditional and archaic elements with a preoccupation with the materiality of language.
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Katarina Frostenson has published over two dozen books, primarily poetry.
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Katarina Frostenson has written as a dramatist and as a translator from French.
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Katarina Frostenson's parents were Georg Frostenson and Anna-Britta Elmdahl.
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Katarina Frostenson's work is frequently described as performing a kind of linguistic skepticism, and as isolating the paradox of using language as the means of its own critique or deconstruction.
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Katarina Frostenson's poetry stands out in Swedish literary history for its radical linguistic experimentation through a blend of the archaic and the avant-garde; its focus on the intricate sonic qualities of the Swedish language; its references to classical mythology, folksongs, ballads, and canonical Western literary and philosophical figures; and its general lack of metaphor and descriptive language.
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Katarina Frostenson's work is orientated towards drawing attention to the material elements of language, that is, sounds, while being attuned to, playing with, and deconstructing the semantic elements formed out of the phonetic building blocks in search of a purer, authentic or genuine kind of language.
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Katarina Frostenson's oeuvre is one of the most influential in Swedish literature.
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Katarina Frostenson was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor in 2003.
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Katarina Frostenson's work has been translated into over ten languages, most notably to French, German, and Italian.
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Katarina Frostenson was accused of having leaked names of Nobel Prize laureates to Arnault before they were announced.
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The Academy ultimately decided against expelling Katarina Frostenson, which prompted the resignation of three academy members.
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Katarina Frostenson protested that she should not be punished for the wrongdoings of her husband.