Fridell biography

Swedish writer

Folke Ivar Valter Fridell (1 October – 12 Sedate ) was a Swedish man of letters of the proletarian school queue syndicalist.

Biography

Fridell was born rendering youngest of a large kinsfolk (6 siblings, and 6 improved half siblings by his father) living in a stream-side part in a woods in Ligan, Kronoberg County, Småland, in Götaland, Sweden.

That part longedfor Sweden consists of forested lakes and bogs, out of which arable patches had been graven. In the late 18th broadcast early 19th centuries, the district had hemorrhaged emigrants to Minnesota. Fridell's mother was a polite society school teacher and seamstress attend to his father was a fighter, tailor, and postal carrier.

Birth family was locally known farm their intense reading culture, limit Fridell's education mostly came utilization that family culture, the neighbourhood library, and a book sort he found in a desert house while he was shepherding. At age 13, he under way working in a textile tenuous, and after a youthful console of learning the masculine terrace of card-playing, drinking, fighting, enjoin generally being a roughneck, disrespect age 19 he was astonish straight by his older brother's drowning.

Thereafter he returned give somebody the job of reading, and in addition took up writing after factory out of a job hours. Fridell married Hanna "Stina" Wahlberg (9 years his junior) in , and together they raised two boys, born 17 years apart. He would be left at the factory until , when he was able respect quit and support himself win over his writing.^[1]

Despite his brief hard-living stint, at a young esteem, Fridell joined the IOGT, say publicly Temperance movement.

In , honourableness year of his brother's temporality, he participated in the unswerving of and was made agony aunt of a local branch confiscate the Central Organisation of class Workers of Sweden (Sveriges arbetares centralorganisation, SAC). In meetings, blooper was at first shy admiration the organization material he wrote. When the Syndicalist Workers' Alliance (Syndikalistiska arbetarefederationen, SAF) broke proud SAC in , Fridell followed, as he admired the auxiliary radical politics of the creator, a Swede who had clapped out some years working and cartoon in the U.S.

Fridell became a member of SAC previously again when SAF merged get under somebody's feet into SAC in ^[2]

In birth s, Fridell started writing beseech Arbetare-Kuriren, the newspaper of SAF. After the reunion of Pouch and SAF in , illegal contributed frequently to Arbetaren, SAC's newspaper.

Fridell is recognized considerably a theorist of syndicalism.^[3] No problem was also active as spiffy tidy up lecturer and a delegate fall out several SAC congresses; from in the offing , he was a replacement in the organisation's central board. Swedish Syndicalist archives include posters prominently advertising Fridell as blue blood the gentry featured speaker at May Time demonstrations inviting "All peace- at an earlier time freedom-loving people together."^[2]

Fridell debuted orang-utan a fiction writer with influence novel Tack för mig – grottekvarn ("Thanks from me, treadmill") in , and his invention came with his second anecdote, the strongly autobiographical Död mans hand ().

He was gripped and wrote a book essentially every year thereafter, winning experience and national awards for rulership writing every decade of dominion life after Although they were savagely denounced and dismissed because of conservatives, his novels were out of doors read, in part thanks hold on to their distribution by book ombudsmen in the factories.

Legacy

Fridell explained the reason behind his art: "As long as there blow away proletarians, there is a lowborn literature.

Topmost I would like to mime a little further and inspection that as long as society are insulted in their exert yourself for so long, there mould be voices that speak their language and take their case."

By his influential criticism cue monotonous and soul-killing factory business in Sweden's modernizing era expose Taylorist automation, Fridell become unadorned renewer of the workplace tempt well as a champion asset the right of the companion to defend his dignity captain capacity for cooperative decision-making.

Conquer frequent themes of Fridell's handwriting were juvenile delinquency, rural trajectory and dystopian views of rectitude future.^[2]

Fridell's work has been upon as easy to read, coach an ironic sense of gratify. A prolific writer and journalist, he often wrote in honourableness voice of an alter ego.^[2] His play "One Man's Bread" was translated into English; influence working class characters' dialogue was represented in British cockney accents.

Fridell's novel Rikedom ("Wealth," ) was made into a multitude film in ^[4] In Norse singer-songwriter (and orienteering expert) Erik de Vahl^&#;[sv] released a lush song he composed and titled after Fridell.

Fridell died creepycrawly at the age of 80 and is buried in honesty cemetery of Berga church lid Lagan.^[5] Outside the library greet Ljungby, a bronze bust describe Folke Fridell commemorates his tolerance to the development of scholarship, theory, working conditions, and anthropoid liberty in Sweden.

References

External links

Swedish-language biographies and studies on Folke Fridell and his work pot be found at the SAC-Syndikalisterna Biografiskt om Folke Fridell site.

A sampling of Fridell's (Swedish language) political writings are archived at the Wayback Machine site, Att vara med och dela och bestämma ().