Catharina Gripenberg

/Finland
Catharina Gripenberg

(Finland), born in 1977. She writes in
Swedish. She has published two books of
poetry. Her first book, På diabilden är
huvudet proppfullt av lycka (On the Slide the
Head’s Crammed of Happiness, 1999), was
an immediate success. It contains narrative
poems that deal with the problems of female
identity in a playful and ironic way.
Her second book of poetry is titled Ödemjuka
belles lettres från en till en (Humble belles
letters from one to one, 2002).

Poems


/ Min bror min syster och jag flyr


/ Svĺgrarna och resan till fyren


/ Travel bureau blind alley