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Poets' A-Z » Gösta
Ågren
Gösta Ågren was born in 1936 in Ostrobothnia,
the Swedish speaking part of northern Finland. He founded
an important Ostrobothnian writers’ co-operative publishing
house in 1973, drawing attention to the cultural isolation
of the Finland-Swedish minority. He has written over 30 books,
and won the prestigious Finlandia Prize in 1989 for his collection
Jär (Here).
His poetry looks inward to the traditions of Finland-Swedish
modernism, and outwards to contemporary English-language poetry,
particularly that of R.S. Thomas. His selected poems have
been translated as A Valley in the Midst of Violence
(1992) by David McDuff.
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