A Cloud of Witnesses

Kjell Espmark, born 1930, is a poet, novelist and literary critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1981. He is published in some twenty languages ​​and has been awarded several international prizes. He made his debut in 1956 with the collection of poems The Murder of Benjamin and in the late 1980s he made another notable debut, this time as a novelist. Glömskan (1987) began a novel suite of seven volumes, called Glömskans tid.As a literary scholar, Kjell Espmark is a specialist in modernism, with books about Artur Lundkvist, Harry Martinson and Tomas Tranströmer. Kjell Espmark is one of Sweden's foremost poets, and a number of his works are gathered deliberately into trilogies. A particular aspect of his work is the monologue, often from the mouths of historical figures, famous or otherwise.