One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake: En kväll i oktober rodde jag ut på sjön
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Tua Forsström
Tua Forsström was born in 1947 in Borgå and currently lives in Helsinki. A much acclaimed Finland-Swedish poet, she has won major literary honours in Sweden as well as Finland. In 2019 she was elected a member of the Swedish Academy. She published her first book in 1972, En dikt om kärleck och annat (A Poem About Love and Other Things), followed by Där anteckningarna slutar (Where the Notes End, 1974), Egentligen är vi mycket lyckliga (Actually We Are Very Happy, 1976), Tallört (Yellow Bird’s-nest, 1979), and September (September, 1983). Tua Forsström achieved wider recognition with her sixth collection, Snöleopard (Snow Leopard, 1987), notably in Sweden and in Britain, where David McDuff’s translation (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) received a Poetry Book Society Translation Award. Marianergraven (The Marianer Trench, 1990) was followed by Parkerna (The Parks, 1992), which won the Swedish Academy’s Finland Prize and was nominated for both the major Swedish literary award, the August Prize (rare for a Finland-Swedish writer) and for Finland’s major literary award, the Finland Prize (now given only for prose). Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar (After Spending a Night Among Horses) appeared in 1997, for which she was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize (1998). She won the Swedish Academy’s Bellman Prize in 2003 and 2018. In 2003 she published her trilogy, Jag studerade en gång vid en underbar fakultat (I studied once at a wonderful faculty), whose English translation by David McDuff and Stina Katchadourian was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2006. This combines her three collections Snow Leopard, The Parks and After Spending a Night Among Horses with a new sequence, Minerals. She has since published three further collections, Sånger (Songs, 2006); En kväll i oktober rodde jag ut på sjön (2012), published in a dual language edition with David McDuff’s translation as One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake (Bloodaxe Books, 2015); and Anteckningar (2018), published in a dual language edition with David McDuff's translation as I walked on into the forest: poems for a little girl (Bloodaxe Books, 2021). Other awards given to Tua Forsström include the Edith Södergran Prize (1991), Pro Finlandia Medal (1991), Göteborgs-Postens poetry prize (1992), Gerald Bonnier poetry prize (1993), Tollanderska Prize (1998) and Naim Frashëri Award (2012). She has also been nominated for the European Aristeion Prize. Her poetry has been translated into several languages, including Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Serbian and Spanish.
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One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake - Tua Forsström
Mörkret, regnet, vänligheten
En kväll med rosor som dalar till bottnen
långsamt en frusen gata i Mejlans en alldeles vanlig kväll
The darkness, the rain, the kindness
An evening with roses that sink to the bottom
slowly a frozen street in Mejlans a perfectly ordinary evening
Söndra i dess minsta delar de minsta
delarna, vad hittar du?
Mörkret, regnet, vänligheten
Ett fyrverkeri slog ut i sydväst över Granvägen plötsligt med
väldiga blommor som dalade ner och slocknade långsamt
störtade ner i vattnet och slocknade plötsligt en vanlig
kväll med rosor långsamt och smälte i
vattnet störtade ner och föll
Split into their smallest parts the smallest
parts, what do you find?
The darkness, the rain, the kindness
A firework display unfolded in the south-west over Granvägen suddenly with
enormous flowers that floated down and went out slowly
plunged down into the water and went out suddenly one ordinary
evening with roses slowly and melted in
the water plunged down and fell
Jag föll genom papperen lagda åt sidan
Jag kom till ett ställe där jag skulle stanna
i fyra nätter men jag stannade fyra år
Nån sade: ni har vållat kommunen betydande utgifter
Jag sade: det här är min situation
En liten modig katt kom till min undsättning
Jag kunde se vad jag ville i mörkret
om natten och ingen såg mig
Det var som en dröm men jag drömde inte
Jag var inte rädd och jag kunde gå genom kalcedon
Jag kunde gå genom kvartskristaller
Jag kunde gå genom sorgsen och sjuk
På bottnen i dyn låg slantar från många länder och glänste
Vi önskar oss vad som helst mellan himmel och jord
Allt vad vi ser och inte kan se och tappade