Difference between revisions of "Kjell Borgström"
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| − | Kjell Borgström, whose unlikely full name was David Hilding Kjell Ethelbert Furness Borgström, found fandom in the early 1960s and became a member of the Stockholm club SFSF, where he remained active until his final years, for a number of years as writer of the meeting minutes. He was also a close friend of Lars-Olov Strandberg, and for many years they travelled together to foreign sf conventions. | + | Kjell Borgström, whose unlikely full name was David Hilding Kjell Ethelbert Furness Borgström, found fandom in the early 1960s and became a member of the Stockholm club SFSF, where he remained active until his final years, for a number of years as writer of the meeting minutes. He was also a close friend of Lars-Olov Strandberg, and for many years they travelled together to foreign sf conventions. He published a personal fanzine, ''Det lutande lärkträdet'' ("The Leaning Larch Tree"), with seven issues from 1967 until 1970, edited one issue of ''[[SF Forum]]'' in 1970, and published the sercon fanzine ''SF Syntes'' with five issues 1971-1974. |
| − | In mundane life a bank officer, Kjell Borgström became known primarily as Swedish fandom's most significant sf poet, publishing hundreds of extremely imaginative and often ironic poems, often with the feel of being brief visions of unimaginably alien beings and worlds. In 1969, his first around 80 poems were collected in a oneshot fanzine, Den suckande tungan ["The Sighing Tongue"], edited and produced by [[John-Henri Holmberg]], [[Mats Linder]] and [[Bertil Mårtensson]]; it was long a sought-after collectors' item | + | In mundane life a bank officer, Kjell Borgström became known primarily as Swedish fandom's most significant sf poet, publishing hundreds of extremely imaginative and often ironic poems, often with the feel of being brief visions of unimaginably alien beings and worlds. In 1969, his first around 80 poems were collected in a oneshot fanzine, ''Den suckande tungan'' ["The Sighing Tongue"], edited and produced by [[John-Henri Holmberg]], [[Mats Linder]] and [[Bertil Mårtensson]]; it was long a sought-after collectors' item. In 1997, SFSF published a further collection of his poems, ''En slags parallell'' ["A Kind of Parallell"], now in book format. He was one of the two significant poets to emerge from Swedish fandom, though in contrast with the other, Gothenburg fanne [[Helena Eriksson]], he never achieved any recognition from the outside world. |
Revision as of 15:59, 1 June 2023
(April 12, 1927 -- December 23, 1997)
Kjell Borgström, whose unlikely full name was David Hilding Kjell Ethelbert Furness Borgström, found fandom in the early 1960s and became a member of the Stockholm club SFSF, where he remained active until his final years, for a number of years as writer of the meeting minutes. He was also a close friend of Lars-Olov Strandberg, and for many years they travelled together to foreign sf conventions. He published a personal fanzine, Det lutande lärkträdet ("The Leaning Larch Tree"), with seven issues from 1967 until 1970, edited one issue of SF Forum in 1970, and published the sercon fanzine SF Syntes with five issues 1971-1974.
In mundane life a bank officer, Kjell Borgström became known primarily as Swedish fandom's most significant sf poet, publishing hundreds of extremely imaginative and often ironic poems, often with the feel of being brief visions of unimaginably alien beings and worlds. In 1969, his first around 80 poems were collected in a oneshot fanzine, Den suckande tungan ["The Sighing Tongue"], edited and produced by John-Henri Holmberg, Mats Linder and Bertil Mårtensson; it was long a sought-after collectors' item. In 1997, SFSF published a further collection of his poems, En slags parallell ["A Kind of Parallell"], now in book format. He was one of the two significant poets to emerge from Swedish fandom, though in contrast with the other, Gothenburg fanne Helena Eriksson, he never achieved any recognition from the outside world.
