Jonas Ellerstr'om

Jonas Ellerström is a writer, translator, art critic, and publisher. In 1983 he founded Ellerströms Publishing House, which has released more than 650 titles. He is the author of several poetry and essay collections, an alternative history of Swedish poetry, and a book about chess. His translations include Swedish versions of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land , Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ), and poetry by Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates. Ellerström has twice...See more

Jonas Ellerström is a writer, translator, art critic, and publisher. In 1983 he founded Ellerströms Publishing House, which has released more than 650 titles. He is the author of several poetry and essay collections, an alternative history of Swedish poetry, and a book about chess. His translations include Swedish versions of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land , Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ), and poetry by Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates. Ellerström has twice received the Karin and Karl Ragnar Gierow Prize from the Swedish Academy. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Together, Mörling and Ellerström have translated Philip Levine's 1933 into Swedish and Edith Södergran's poetry collection On Foot I Wandered through the Solar Systems into English. They are also the co-editors and translators of the anthology The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden . See less