Kronbergs, Juris
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Born in Sweden in 1946, in a Latvian artist family, Juris Kronbergs died on 6 July 2020 in Stockholm. He studied comparative literature, Nordic and Baltic languages at the University of Stockholm, as well as theory of translation and 20th century poetry at Cambridge, England. Kronbergs worked as a radio journalist for Radio Sweden, and interpreter for Sweden’s parliament, government and The Nordic Council of Ministers. He was cultural attaché at the Latvian Embassy in Sweden during the years 1992 - 2002, as well as a poet, literary translator, lecturer and scholar.
Juris Kronbergs received several scholarships and prizes for poetry and translation, among them the prize for best poetry collection of the year in Latvia (1997) for the collection "Wolf One-Eye". Twelve collections of his poetry were published by him, as well as poetry on CD (in Latvia and in Sweden). His output as a translator includes more than forty-five books of translations, mostly Latvian poetry (but also prose) into Swedish, and Swedish literature into Latvian. His poems were translated into numerous languages and selections of his poems have been published in Great Britain, Lithuania, Armenia, France and Denmark.
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Textigår är imorgon (Translation of "vakar ira rytoi" from Lithuanian)Guden Odins nio nätter (Translation of "Dieva Odina deviņas naktis" from Latvian)
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