Eva Ström Biography
Eva Ström (born 1947 in Lidingö, Stockholm County) is a Swedish lyricist, novelist, biographer and literary critic. She made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Den brinnande zeppelinaren. Ström trained as a physician and worked in the medical profession 1974-1988 before becoming a full-time author.
She was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2003 for the poetry collection Revbensstäderna ("The Rib Cities").In January 2010, she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
She is the mother of Karin Ström.
The animals felt uneasy sooner than the humans did.
They wandered in huge herds out into the sunset.
The white raven flappef its wings.
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Can you hear the singing from inside the church?
Who is singing? Cracked voices, old women?
IS someone lying in the coffin? Has it been emptied,plundered?
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The printing ink has disappeared
it stains no hands
The tourists at the cathedral
take out their Scottish money
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Mother says that it's a memory
and I can have it
I can have her memory
and stitch it to mine, it has frayed edges
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