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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. | ||
| − | 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] | + | 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. Later Borgström published two fanzines of his own, Det lutande lärkträdet ["The Leaning Larch Tree"] (around a dozen issues) and Sf-syntes (both early to mid 1970s), and edited one issue of Science fiction forum. 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 00:58, 28 May 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.
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. Later Borgström published two fanzines of his own, Det lutande lärkträdet ["The Leaning Larch Tree"] (around a dozen issues) and Sf-syntes (both early to mid 1970s), and edited one issue of Science fiction forum. 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.
