About Bengt Pohjanen
Born 1944. Bengt Pohjanen is a Swedish translator, christian minister, writer, literary scholar, librettist and theologian.
Bengt Erik Benedictus Pohjanen (born 26 June 1944 in Kassa in Pajala, Norrbotten, Sweden), is a Swedish author, translator and priest living in Överkalix. He belongs to the Finnic Meänkieli-speaking Tornedalian minority. Pohjanen has worked on the development of the literary language and grammar of Meänkieli; he has published Meänkieli-language writings and translations. He also writes in Finnish and Swedish.
Pohjanen won the Rubus arcticus in 1995 and the Eyvind Johnson literature prize in 2010.
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Swedish writer
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Bengt Pohjanen was born on 26 June 1944 in Pajala.
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Bengt Pohjanen is a translator, christian minister, writer, literary scholar, librettist and theologian.
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