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He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1960.
( Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind...)
Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism; memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, monologues, and dialogues with the living and the dead coalesce in a complex layering of experience, past and present. Urwind is a construct worthy of Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and a painful chronicle of the ending of a love.
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He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1960.
Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories. He is the only person yet to have received the Finlandia Prize twice. His poem, Winter was Hard, was set to music by composer Aulis Sallinen.
He also wrote the libretto for Erik Bergman"s only opera, Det sjungande trädet.
Carpelan died of cancer on 11 February 2011.
( Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind...)
(Book is in Swedish.)
He was a member of the Finnish noble family Carpelan.