Rahikainen, Agneta

Agneta Rahikainen, born in Sibbo, Uusimaa in 1962, has a PhD in Swedish Literature from Helsinki University. She lives in Helsinki and works as a Marketing Manager at The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, responsible for promoting Finnish-Swedish literature in Finland and Sweden.
She is also a non-fiction author and she has published biographies about the writers Johan Ludvig and Fredrika Runeberg, Henry Parland and Edith Södergran. She also writes articles in different topics and book reviews in the Swedish non-fiction magazine Respons.
In recent years, she has been focusing mostly on illness in literature and visual art, especially tuberculosis and syphilis. Her next book will published under the title Smittans rike. Syfilis i konst, kultur och kropp, Natur & Kultur, Stockholm 2021.

Stam, Per

Per Stam was born in Vansbro, Sweden, in 1964 and holds a PhD in Literature from Uppsala University.
He has been editor in Chief at The Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, and Research fellow at The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, Helsinki.
His publications include: Introducción, in August Strindberg, Una mirada al Universo. Ensayos sobre alquimia, ciencias naturales, misticismo, fotografia y pintura, ed. Carles Magrinyà, 2016; Ed., Henry Parland, Sönder (om framkallning av Veloxpapper), 2005/2014; Ed., August Strindberg, Vivisektioner II, 2011

Zilliacus, Clas

Born in Mariehamn (Åland Islands), Finland, in 1943.
Studied English and Comparative Literature at Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and TCD Dublin, research study at Columbia U. (NYC). Ph.D. from ÅA U. (Beckett and Broadcasting, 1976). Opinionens tryck 1985; Gen. Ed., Finlands svenska litteraturhistoria II (1900-talet) 2000; Coeditor, Z. Topelius Lyrik I (2010).
ÅA U. Professor of Comp. Lit. 1986-2008. Faculty Dean 2001-2002. Visiting prof., U. of Minnesota, 1996. Academia Europaea fellow 1995.
Board member, The Samuel Beckett Society 1995-1999, The Swedish Literature Society of Finland 2003- , International Assoc. of Scandinavian Studies 2000-2010. On the team for the almanac and book series Trajekt 1981-1986.
Translator (Eng., Finn., Ger. &c.). Awards include the Finnish State prize for Hamlet (Sw.) 1984 and the Swedish Academy Finland prize 1995.

Sjögren, Lennart

Lennart Sjögren, born in 1930 on northern Öland, where he still lives, has been active as a poet for more than sixty years and today holds a special position in Swedish literature. He made his debut in 1958 with Håll portarna öppna (Keep the Gates Open) and has published ever since, almost thirty more books of poetry, one novel (Fårmannen, 1999) and essays on art, most recently the book of poems I grenverket (In the branches) in 2019.
Over the years, he has received many awards, including the Swedish Radio Poetry Prize, Fröding's Grand Prize, the De Nios Prize, the Karlfeldt Prize and the Aspenström Prize.
Lennart Sjögren is also active as a painter.

Sjöberg, Åke G.

Throughout his life Åke G. Sjöberg has worked with strong commitment and enthusiasm to expand and convey the knowledge about Gotland's history and cultural heritage, both as lecturer and writer.

Born in Klinte on Gotland in 1932, he worked after his studies at Uppsala University (Ph.D. in economic history) as a secondary school teacher in history at Säveskolans gymnasium in Visby. Born and raised on Gotland, he had in many years had a radically important role in this island, as German consul, as chairman of the church council in Visby Cathedral parish and as chairman of the Congregation of Gotland's churches. When Gotland University College started, he has also become an appreciated cicerone for history students.

A large number of scientific and popular scientific publications bears witness of his profund knowledge. Just to mention a few of his research studies: "Gotlandic scooners and skippers in Gotlandic studies in the 1630s and 1640s" (1974), "Fartygslästen. An examination of the cargo as a ship's measure in the ports of Gotland 1630-1660" (1977) and "Haquin Spegel's Rudera Gothlandica and the historians' battle over Gotland" (2014). He also was the editor of "Historia kring Gotland" (1963).

Åke G. Sjöberg was appointed honorary doctor at Uppsala University at the Faculty of History and Philosophy in 2014.

His essay "Den Blomstertid nu kommer" was written specifically for the Baltic Sea Library.

Kleberg, Lars

Lars Kleberg, born in Gothenburg (Göteborg) in 1941, is a Swedish literary critic, writer and translator. He is the son of docent in Latin Tönnes Kleberg and Valgerda Kleberg b. Finsen.

As professor in Russian at Södertörns högskola Stockholm he was one of the founders of the literary translation seminar. He is the chief editor of Svenskt översättarlexikon, Swedish translation dictionary.

Between 1990 and 1994 he was installed as cultural attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. In 1970-71 he worked as editor of the culture journal Ord&Bild. In 1977 Lars Kleberg presented a thesis at Stockholm University on the subject Teatern som handling: Sovjetisk avantgardeestetik 1917–1927. Lars Kleberg is a translator from Russian and Polish, especially of poetry and drama. He has translated plays by Anton Chekhov and Sławomir Mrożek and poetry by Lev Rubinstein, Adam Zagajewski and Ryszard Krynicki..

In addition to his own books, such as Översättaren som skådespelare: essäer, Stockholm 2001, Tjechov och friheten: en litterär biografi, Stockholm 2010, and Vid avantgardets korsvägar: om Ivan Aksionov och den ryska modernismen, Stockholm 2015, he has been the editor of several anthologies and has worked on various literature-related issues. In 1988, three plays were published in the book Stjärnfall. The plays (Vattumännen, Trollkarlens lärlingar, and Askonsdag) were performed in 1991 by the Swedish radio's Radioteatern and won Nordiska Radioteaterpriset the same year. In 1988, his Trollkarlens lärlingar (Les Apprentis Sorciers) was staged at the Avignon Festival by Antoine Vitez.

His awards include Stiftelsen Natur & Kulturs översättarpris in 1996 and John Landquists pris in 2015.