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Solveig vom Schoultz [Schoultz’s Poems] poet, short story writer and playwright (no photo available) As a writer of poetry, short stories, and plays, Solveig von Schoultz is considered as one of the most outstanding artists of the Swedish language. The stories and plays mostly deal with the subtle psychology of human relations, and there is often a woman in the principal part; the language is powerful and poetic, presenting the human condition as both comic and tragic. In poetry, described by the author as her "native tongue", the human relations still form an important issue along with woman’s lives and human maturing, but the concentration of form seems to offer more room to combine motives from different areas and thus create texts that are full of contrasts, nuances, allusions and connotations. Solveig von Schoultz does not define herself as a Christian author, but she never lets go of motives and themes that belong to a Christian tradition. Brought up in an artistically talented family with a keen and scrupulous piety, and later working as a teacher, she was well acquainted with the Bible and other sources of devotion, reflection, and language. This appears in many ways in her poetry: as a ‘biblical’ note, resembling the language of the Psalms in the Old Testament, as allusions to certain passages of biblical texts, and as images, motives and themes that can be connected to the Bible or Christian tradition. This kind of a religious dimension is present throughout the whole body of her literary work. Her way of combining matter from the Christian tradition with a broad spectre of motives and themes generates challenge as well as affirmation. Solveig vom Schoultz is acknowledged as one of the leading figures in the advancement of modernism in Swedish poetry. Source: www.janua.helsinki.fi/graduateschool/topicslong.html http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/literat.html |
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