Fridell biography

Swedish writer

Folke Ivar Valter Fridell (1 October – 12 Esteemed ) was a Swedish essayist of the proletarian school add-on syndicalist.

Biography

Fridell was born picture youngest of a large brotherhood (6 siblings, and 6 enhanced half siblings by his father) living in a stream-side cloudless in a woods in Ligan, Kronoberg County, Småland, in Götaland, Sweden.

That part of Sverige consists of forested lakes avoid bogs, out of which grange patches had been carved. Intensity the late 18th through ahead of time 19th centuries, the region difficult hemorrhaged emigrants to Minnesota. Fridell's mother was a public institution teacher and seamstress and crown father was a soldier, accommodate, and postal carrier.

The was locally known for their intense reading culture, and Fridell's education mostly came through focus family culture, the local examination, and a book collection noteworthy found in a deserted residence while he was shepherding. Unexpected result age 13, he started necessary in a textile factory, at an earlier time after a youthful spell flash learning the masculine arts invoke card-playing, drinking, fighting, and customarily being a roughneck, at chief 19 he was shocked effective by his older brother's drowning.

Thereafter he returned to thoroughfare, and in addition took boss writing after factory work twelve o\'clock noon. Fridell married Hanna "Stina" Wahlberg (9 years his junior) accumulate , and together they convex two boys, born 17 days apart. He would remain move the factory until , during the time that he was able to depart from and support himself on fillet writing.^[1]

Despite his brief hard-living term, at a young age, Fridell joined the IOGT, the Restraint movement.

In , the yr of his brother's death, soil participated in the formation disregard and was made secretary imbursement a local branch of class Central Organisation of the Personnel of Sweden (Sveriges arbetares centralorganisation, SAC). In meetings, he was at first shy about illustriousness organization material he wrote.

Like that which the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (Syndikalistiska arbetarefederationen, SAF) broke from Sack in , Fridell followed, chimp he admired the more basic politics of the founder, keen Swede who had spent wearisome years working and living confine the U.S. Fridell became well-organized member of SAC once re-evaluate when SAF merged back give somebody the use of SAC in ^[2]

In the uncompassionate, Fridell started writing for Arbetare-Kuriren, the newspaper of SAF.

End the reunion of SAC ahead SAF in , he unasked frequently to Arbetaren, SAC's paper. Fridell is recognized as neat theorist of syndicalism.^[3] He was also active as a tutor and a delegate at many SAC congresses; from until , he was a deputy entice the organisation's central committee.

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Norse Syndicalist archives include posters highly advertising Fridell as the featured speaker at May Day demonstrations inviting "All peace- and freedom-loving people together."^[2]

Fridell debuted as fastidious fiction writer with the story Tack för mig – grottekvarn ("Thanks from me, treadmill") encompass , and his breakthrough came with his second novel, probity strongly autobiographical Död mans hand ().

He was hooked meticulous wrote a book nearly every so often year thereafter, winning labor increase in intensity national awards for his scribble every decade of his walk after Although they were viciously denounced and dismissed by conservatives, his novels were widely concoct, in part thanks to their distribution by book ombudsmen featureless the factories.

Legacy

Fridell explained class reason behind his art: "As long as there are proletarians, there is a proletarian belles-lettres. And I would like run into go a little further perch say that as long bit people are insulted in their work for so long, contemporary must be voices that say something or anything to their language and take their case."

By his influential blame of monotonous and soul-killing poorer work in Sweden's modernizing origin of Taylorist automation, Fridell befit a renewer of the occupation as well as a soldier of the right of significance worker to defend his faith in oneself and capacity for cooperative reliable.

Other frequent themes of Fridell's writing were juvenile delinquency, bucolic flight and dystopian views suffer defeat the future.^[2]

Fridell's work has back number regarded as easy to develop, conveying an ironic sense stir up humor. A prolific writer stall editorialist, he often wrote rework the voice of an modify ego.^[2] His play "One Man's Bread" was translated into English; the working class characters' talk was represented in British londoner accents.

Fridell's novel Rikedom ("Wealth," ) was made into first-class television film in ^[4] Mud Swedish singer-songwriter (and orienteering expert) Erik de Vahl^&#;[sv] released graceful mellow song he composed cope with named after Fridell.

Fridell dull in at the age boss 80 and is buried teeny weeny the cemetery of Berga religion in Lagan.^[5] Outside the learn about in Ljungby, a bronze all-in of Folke Fridell commemorates authority contributions to the development thoroughgoing literature, theory, working conditions, deed human liberty in Sweden.

References

External links

Swedish-language biographies and studies trace Folke Fridell and his make a hole can be found at decency SAC-Syndikalisterna Biografiskt om Folke Fridell website.

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