Sebastian Lybeck
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Sebastian Lybeck | |
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| Born | Carl Mikael Sebastian Lybeck 3 August 1929 Helsinki, Finland |
| Died | 11 November 2020 (aged 91) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupations | Author, translator |
Carl Mikael Sebastian Lybeck (3 August 1929 – 11 November 2020) was a Finland-Swedish author and translator who lived and worked in Finland and in his later years in Sweden. He was the grandson of Mikael Lybeck (1864–1925).[1][2]
Lybeck's parents were the artist Nils Lybeck and the ceramist Marita Hahl. Lybeck graduated from Grankulla svenska samskola in 1947.
Career
[edit]After university studies in Turku and Helsinki and Kadettskolan in Santahamina from 1949 to 1951, he worked as a journalist at Hufvudstadsbladet (1951–1952), Nya Pressen (1954) and Västra Nyland (1954–1955). He also worked as a salesman for Michelin from 1952 to 1953 and as a freelance journalist, construction worker, farmer and fisherman, among other things.[3]
Afterwards he lived in various places in Norway, Denmark and Sweden; 1957 in Stockholm, 1959–1964 in Lofoten in Norway, then mainly in Sweden: during the 1970s in Uddevalla, since 2004 in Stockholm.
Personal life
[edit]From 1958 he was married to the Norwegian teacher Berthe Marie Ruud (who died 2007) with whom he had two daughters. Sebastian Lybeck is buried at Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm.
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- I tornet (Söderström, 1951)
- Patent 711 krumelur (Söderström,1955)
- Fågel över sju floder (Söderström, 1956)
- Jorden har alltid sitt ljus (Bonnier, 1958)
- Dikter från Lofoten (Bonnier, 1961)
- Liten stad vid havet : dikter (Bonnier, 1963)
- Mitt i den nordiska idyllen (Författarförlaget, 1972)
- Är det liv i ditt liv? (Författarförlaget, 1974)
- Vi ska slå upp portarna!: dikter (Författarförlaget, 1978)
- Dikter från Bohuslän (Permanent press, 1980)
- Råttansiktet eller Sub specie necessitatis : dikter (Författarförlaget, 1981)
Children's books
[edit]- Latte Igelkott och vattenstenen (illustrations by Veronica Leo) (Lindblad, 1956). Omarb. version Söderström, 2009
- German translation: Latte Igel und der Wasserstein (1958)
- Afrikaans translation: Die Dapper Rolvark (1962)
- Dutch translation: Egeltje Prik (1965)
- Danish translation: Povl Pindsvin og vandstenen (1967)
- Thai translation: [Unknown title] (1988)
- Finnish translation: Latte-siili ja Vesikivi (2009)
- Lithuanian translation: Ežiukas Latė ir vandens skiltuvas (2012)
- Latte Igelkott reser till Egypten (illustrations by Veronica Leo) (Sörlin, 1958)
- Dutch translation: Egeltje Prik naar Egypte (1960-tal)
- Als der Fuchs seine Ohren verlor (Thienemann, 1966) [not published in Swedish]
- När elefanten tog tanten (illustrated by Hans Jörgen Toming) (Svensk läraretidning, 1967)
- Norwegian translation: Da elefanten tok leketanten (1967)
- Dutch translation: De toversleutel (1967)
- Finnish translation: Kun elefantti Kyösti puistotädin ryösti (1967)
- English translation: The magic key (1967)
- Danish translation: Da elefanten tog tanten (1967)
- French translation: La clé à tout faire (1967)
- Bokstavskatten (with Caje Huss) (Tiden, 1969)
- Latte Igelkott reser till Lofoten (Söderström, 2012)
- German translation: Latte Igel reist zu den Lofoten (1969)
- Danish translation: Povl Pindsvin ta'r til Lofoten (1970)
- Finnish translation: Latte-siili Lofooteilla (2012)
- Latte Igelkott och Svarta Skuggan (Söderströms, 2010)
- Finnish translation: Latte-siili ja Musta Varjo (2010)
- Ein grosser Tag für Latte Igel (2012) [not published in Swedish]
Translations
[edit]- Christian Morgenstern: Det upplysta månlammet (FIB:s lyrikklubb, 1958)
- Med andra ögon: modern holländsk lyrik (translated with Jan F. de Zanger) (FIB:s lyrikklubb, 1968)
- En diktare är ingen sockersäck: nio obekväma poeter i DDR: en antologi (by Jan Andrew Nilsen and Sebastian Lybeck) (FIB:s lyrikklubb, 1968)
- Jack Tworkov: Den vackra kamelens morgonpromenad (The camel who took a walk) (Tiden, 1969.)
Awards
[edit]- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 1959 (for the book Latte Igel und der Wasserstein)
- Längmanska kulturfondens Finlandprize 1966[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Nykarleby :: Lybeck, M." www.nykarleby.fi. Archived from the original on 2007-02-12. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
- ↑ "Sebastian Lybeck död – skapade älskad igelkott". bohuslaningen.se (in Swedish). 2020-11-26. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
- 1 2 "Lybeck, Carl Mikael Sebastian". Writers in Finland 1945–1980 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1985. pp. 380–381. ISBN 951-717-348-2.
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