In memoriam: Magnus Ljunggren (October 25, 1942 – June 19, 2022)
In memoriam: Magnus Ljunggren (October 25, 1942 – June 19, 2022)

Summary/Abstract: In June 2022, a sudden heart attack ended the life of the renowned Swedish literary scholar, Professor Magnus Ljunggren, putting an end to his lifelong dedication to Russian literature and thought. Like many other Swedish Slavists, Ljunggren learned Russian at the Armed Forces Language School in Uppsala. In the sixties he worked as a journalist for Swedish newspapers and magazines, often writing outspokenly about his meetings with Soviet writers who visited Stockholm. Among these writers were Yеvgeny Yevtushenko, Аnatoly Sofronov, Yevgeny Dolmatovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg and Bulat Okudzhava. On his visits to the Soviet Union, he met and interviewed, among others, Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Nikolai Khardzhiev, Lev Kopelev, Lydia Chukovskaya, Мarietta Shaginyan, Anastasiia Tsvetaeva and Konstantin Azadovsky. In Paris he met Boris Zaitsev, Irina Odoevtseva, Viktor Nekrasov and Аlexander Zinoviev, just to name a few.

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