
Poetry Collections in Swedish:
Hjärta, jägare 2025 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Komma nej, 2024 (Pamflett Förlag)
Hjärta, jägare/Coeur, chasseur/Heart, Hunter artist book 2024 (Atelier M.U.R.R., Paris)
Revolution House 2021 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Hands, Acts 2019 (Chapbook)
Atlantis 2017 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Till Damaskus 2014 with Ghayath Almadhoun (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Aphanisisanamorfos 2013 (Chateaux Press)
Material 2010 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
23:23 2006 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Sockenplan, säger hon 2003 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House) Imorgon, och imorgon 1997 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House) Akustisk Alhambra 1994 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House) Komma och gå 1990 (Wahlström & Widstrand Publishing House)
Poetry Collections in other languages:
Damauscus, Atlantis transled by Kelsi Vanada 2021 Terra Nova Press
Longlisted for 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Finalist to Big Other Book Award for Poetry 2021
23:23, translation into Danish by Andreas Vermehren Holm, 2015, Forlaget Virkelig
English translations in:
http://blacksunlit.com/2018/07/saint-ouen-stalingrad-by-marie-silkeberg-translated-from-swedish-by-kelsi-vanada/ https://interim.squarespace.com/35-1/marie-silkeberg-emma-warg
https://www.theguardian.com/books/translation-tuesdays-by-asymptote-journal/2016/may/03/translation-tuesday-the- cities-a-poem-by-marie-silkeberg
For translations into other languages: https://www.mariesilkeberg.com/
Translations:
Susan Howe: Konkordans (Concordance) (with Imri Sandström) (Relä Publishing House) spring 2027
George Oppen: Denna i vilken. Poesi 1934-1978(Collected Poems) (toghether with P Thörneby and G Itkes-Sznap) fall 2026 (Phaeton förlag)
Inger Christensen: Som med intet som språk poems and texts from the archive, 2024 (Modernista Publishing House)
Anne Boyer: Det att inte dö (The Undying) 2021,
Alice Notley: Vissa magiska handlingar (Certain Magical Acts), 2019 (Modernista Publishing House)
Claudia Rankine: Medborgare (Citizen) 2017 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Del av labyrinten 2017 (Modernista Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Brev i april 2015 (Modernista Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Alfabet 2014 with I Linde (Modernista Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Ljus 2012 (Modernista Publishing House)
Rosmarie Waldrop: Äpplets vana att falla (Curve of the Apple) with N Nilsson och I Linde 2011 (Ramùs)
Inger Christensen: Azorno 2011 (Modernista Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Det målade rummet 2010 (Modernista Publishing House)
Patti Smith: Oskuldens tecken (Auguries of Innocence) with N Nilsson 2010 (Brombergs Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Det 2009 (Modernista Publishing House)
Mette Moestrup: Golden Delicious 2004 (Pequod Publishing House)
Susan Howe: Spinnaker (The Europe of Trusts and Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker )2000 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Pia Tafdrup: Dagen, ditt ljus 1995 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Marguerite Duras: Förgöra, säger hon (Détruire, dit-elle) 1986 (Interculture Press
Non-fiction, Collections of Essays:
Ödeläggelse 2009 (Autor)
Avståndsmätning 2005 (Autor)
Editor of:
Inger Christensen: Verden ønsker at se sig selv. Inger Christensens efterladte papirer 1955-2007
co-editor Peter Borum 2018 (Gyldendal Publishing House)
Inger Christensen: Som var mit sind lidt græs der blev fortalt co-editor Peter Borum 2017 (Gyldendal Publishing House)
Att fortsätta med att skriva - Om Ingeborg Bachmanns ”Malina” 2011 (Autor Press)
(ed. Inrid Z Aanestad och Marie Silkeberg) A collective hybrid corresponcance between 9 Scandinavian women around the novel Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Ghayath Almadhoun: Asylansökan 2010, (Ersatz Publisher)
Göran Sonnevi: Dikter i urval 2008 (Albert Bonniers Publishing House)
Teaching:
Creative Writing, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design 2024
-Creative Writing, Nordens Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö 2022-
HCA Academy Visiting Professor at the Department for the Study of Culture
University of Southern Denmark, 2015 – 2018
Professor, Creative Writing, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 2004 – 2014
Residencies:
Café TIssardmine, Morrocco, winter 2026
Swedish Institute in Paris, France, winter 2025
Headlands Center for the Arts, CA, US, summer 2025 FaveLab, Athens, Greece, spring 2025
Art Omi, NY, US spring 2024
Swedish Institute, Paris, France, winter 2024 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, US summer 2022
Athens, Ariane Wahlgrens House, Greece, spring 2022 EUK, Strahlen, Germany, spring 2022
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey, fall 2019 Macdowell, NH, US, fall 2018
Vermont Studio Center, US, winter 2017
International Writing Program, Iowa University, US, fall 2015 The Kavalla House, Thessaloniki, Greece, spring 2013 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy, spring 2013
Baltic Center for Writers and Translators, Sweden, 2003-201
Prizes and rewards:
Hjärta, jägare
Nominated to the Sveriges Radios Poetry Prize 2026
Damascus, Atlantis, translated by Kelsi Vanada
Longlisted for 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Finalist to Big Other Bokk Award for Poetry 2021
Revolution House, 2023
Nominated to Sveriges Radios Poetry Prize 2023
American-Scandinavian Foundation The Nadia Christensens Prize for translation Kelsi Vanada Atlantis 2018 Signe Ekblad-Eldhs Prize, The Swedish Academy 2017 Swedish PEN, Bernspriset, 2017
The Swedish Academy, Anna Sjöstedts Grant, 2015
The Sorescu Prize, The Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm 2013 Nöjesguidens Literary Prize 2010
Irma och Einar Forseths kulturfond 2008
The Swedish Academy, Kallebergerstipendiet, 2007
The Nine Society, Karl Vennbergs Poetry Prize, 2007 Stiftelsen Albert Bonniers Hundraårsminne 2006
Göteborgspostens Literary Prize 2006
The Swedish Radios Poetry Prize 2004
Karin Boyes Prize for Poetry 2004
The Swedish Academy Ilona Kohrtz Grant, 2002-2003
Poetry films:
Snow 2015
3.31 min
Marie Silkeberg & Ghayath Almadhoun
text: Marie Silkeberg
camera: Marie Silkeberg & Ghayath Almadhoun & shared films from internet music: Hanna Hartman
3rd Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition. IndieCork Festival of Independent Cinema & Music, Ireland, 2015 Cinemateque, Iowa University, USA, 2015
Baskerville, New Orleans, USA, 2015 University of Southern Denmark, 2015
Zebra International Poetry Festival, Germany 2016 Georgetown Literary Festival, Malaysia, 2016 Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore, 2016
Zebra Poetry Film Club, Berlin, Germany 2017
N-O-T M-Y P-O-E-M-S, Daad Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2020
Published on Moving Poems:
http://movingpoems.com/2015/09/sno-snow-by-marie-silkeberg/
and:
http://atticusreview.org/snow-2/
The Celebration 2014
8.53 min
Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg
text & voice: Ghayath Almadhoun music: 5 seconds by Chopin camera: unknown
montage: Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg
Screened at:
Östersjöns Författar- och Översättarcentrum 2014 7th Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, 2014
Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Ireland 2014 Perdu Cultural Centre, Amsterdam, 2014
Bozar Literature, Brussels, 2014 Young Syrian Artist, Amsterdam 2014
Cinemateque, Iowa University, USA, 2015 Syddansk universitet, 2015
Doctor Clip Poetry Film Festival, Rome, Italy, 2015 The Poetry Festival in Berlin 2016
Georgetown Literary Festival, Malaysia 2016 etc
N-O-T M-Y P-O-E-M-S, Daad Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2020
Published on Moving Poems:
http://movingpoems.com/2014/06/the-celebration-by-ghayath-almadhoun/
Your Memory is My Freedom 2012
5.41 min
Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg
text: ”Your Memory is My Freedom” by Marie Silkeberg voice: Marie Silkeberg
camera: Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg
anonymous from Syrien
montage: Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg
Screened:
Room for Poetry, Bookfair Gothenburg, Sweden , 2012 International Poetry Festival, Gothenburg 2012
Stanza Poetry Festival, Malmö, Sweden2012 International Poetry Film Festival, Aten, 2013 TreviglioPoesia Festival, Treviglio, Milan, Italy, 2013
Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Ireland 2013 Oslo poetry film festival, Norway 2013
Moving Silence, Saloniki and Athens, Greece2014
Poetry and Revolt, Multimedia Action Poetry, Athens 2014 Liberated Words, Poetry Film and Form, Bristol, England 2014 Inter Artes, Kristiansand, Norway, 2014
BCWT, Gotland, Sweden, 2014
Art in Translation, Reykjavik, Iceland 2014
7th Zebra International Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, 2014 Art Printing Works, Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia 2014 Georgetown Literary Festival, Malaysia, 2014
Oslo Festival for Digital and Visual Poetry, Norway 2015 Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin, 2015 Vratzke! Volgograd, Russia 2015
Wolshski, Russia, 2015
City of Poetry Festival, Lublin, Poland, 2015
POETRY , Cinema Schlosstheater in Münster, Germany 2015 Dotdotdot 15, Vienna, Austria 2015
The 3rd Long Night of the Film Festival, Berlin 2015 The Poetry Evenings in Struga, Macedonia, 2015
The 6th International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2015 Cinemateque, Iowa University, USA 2015
International Literature Festival, Leukerbad, Switzerland 2016 Georgetown Literary Festival, Malaysia, 2016
etc.
N-O-T M-Y P-O-E-M-S, Daad Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2020
Published on Moving Poems:
http://movingpoems.com/2014/09/your-memory-is-my-freedom-by-marie-silkeberg/
The City 2012
6.59 min
Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg
texts by Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg
voices: people in the streets of Stockholm film: demolition material from the internet
music: Miriam Karpantshof and Imri Sandström sound montage: Marie Silkeberg
film montage: Ghayath Almadhoun
Screened at:
Harpefoss Poetry Festival Norway, 2012
San Francisco International Poetry Festival 2012
Co-Kisser Poetry Film Festival Minneapolis, 2012 (Best in Category: Place) 6th Zebra Poetry Film Festival i Berlin, 2012
Stanza Festival, Malmö, Sweden 2012 International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, 2013
Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Ireland 2013 Inter Artes, Kristiansand, Norway, 2014
BCWT, Gotland, Sweden 2014
Art in Translation, Reykjavik, Iceland 2014
Poetry, Mediatization and New Sensibilities, Denmark 2014 Iowa University, USA, 2015
Singapores Writers Festival, november 2016 etc
N-O-T M-Y P-O-E-M-S, Daad Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2020
Published on Moving Poems:
http://movingpoems.com/2014/06/the-city-by-ghayath-almadhoun-and-what-gas-by-marie-silkeberg/
Ödeläggelse IV Stockholm – Gaza 2009
7.30 min
Marie Silkeberg & Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
text: “We” by Ghayath Almadhoun
voices: Ghayath Almadhoun & Marie Silkeberg camera: Marie Silkeberg and anonymous music: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
montage: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff and Marie Silkeberg
idea &composition: Marie Silkeberg
Screened at
In the competition for 5th Zebra Film Festival, Berlin 2010
Lisbon, Bogotá, Helsinki, Bolzano, Barcelona, Chennai, Dublin, Cordoba, Oslo, Copenhagen etc
Ödeläggelse III Warszawa – Oswiecim 2008
15.22 min
Marie Silkeberg & Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
text: Charlotte Delbo ur Auschwitz et après 1971
voice: Marie Silkeberg
camera & sound recordings: Marie Silkeberg
music: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
montage: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff and Marie Silkeberg
idea &composition: Marie Silkeberg
Ödeläggelse II Hanoi- Halong 2007
8.05 min
Marie Silkeberg & Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
texts: Doan Thi Diem, Nguyen Bao Chan, Tuyet Nga, Hoang Viet Hang, Lam Thi My Da, Marie Silkeberg
voices: Le Khan, Nguyen Fung, Marie Silkeberg
camera & soundrecordings: Marie Silkeberg
music: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
montage: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff and Marie Silkeberg
idea&composition: Marie Silkeberg
Ödeläggelse I Kyoto – Hiroshima – Tokyo 2006
17.51 min
Marie Silkeberg & Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
text & voice: Marie Silkeberg
camera: Leo Silkeberg & Marie Silkeberg
sound recordings: Marie Silkeberg
music: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff
montage: Fredrik Arsaeus Nauckhoff and Marie Silkeberg
idea&composition: Marie Silkeberg
Between Words 2005
4.55 min
Kirill Shuvalov and Marie Silkeberg
Works for the stage:
Plays:
Överlevnadsstrategier, Björn Elissons Danskompani, Norrlandsoperan 2002
Jeanne d’Arc – en stor seger (med Christian Tomner) Upsala Stadsteater 1995
Translations:
Tue Biering: Rocky, förlorarens återkomst 2019 (Teatern under bron, Stockholm)
Anna C Bro: Sandholm (med K Naderehvandi) 2010 (Helsingsborgs stadsteater)
Peter Asmussen: Om ett ögonblick 2007 (Colombine Teaterförlag)
Line Knutzon: Först föds man ju 1998 (Unga Riksteatern)
Text&Sound compositions:
Sorgeritual first performance in St Sigfrids kyrka, Stockholm, May 2026
38.19 min
Malvin Karlsson and Marie Silkeberg
Texts: Marie Silkeberg
Voices: American artists on Headlands, Jim Sjöberg, Marie Silkeberg, Teaterkören, voices in the streets of Malmö
Hjärta, jägare
23.40 min
Malvin Karlsson and Marie Silkeberg
Texts: Marie Silkeberg
Voices: VS Broady, Marion Lachaise, Mary
Live performance at Benhuset, Katarina kyrka 23 augusti 2024
Till Damaskus – ett radiostycke Radioteatern, Sveriges Radio 2014
28.34 min
texts&voices Ghayath Almadhoun, Marie Silkeberg och Simon J Berge
music: Fredrik Schützler
producer: Marie Wennersten
sound: Lena Samuelsson
True description of that sun Stockholm New Music, Kulturhuset Stockholm 2006
9.23 min
text&voice: Marie Silkeberg
music: Kim Hedås
idea&composition: Kim Hedås and Marie Silkeberg
För allt finns en omvänd bana Sveriges Radio 2004
15.32 min
Håkan Sandelius and Marie Silkeberg
texts: Helena Eriksson, Osip Mandelstam, Alexander Skidan, Marie Silkeberg, Jenny Tunedal
voices: Helena Eriksson, Kirill Shuvalov, Natalia Pershinskaya, Marfa Shuvalov, Marie Silkeberg, Jenny Tunedal
sound recordings: Marie Silkeberg
music: Håkan Sandelius
Ultraljuden, städerna 2003 CD (Bokbandet)
19.01 min
Håkan Sandelius and Marie Silkeberg
texts&voices: Beate Grimsrud, Susan Howe, Tone Hødnebø, Mette Moestrup, Niclas Nilsson, Marie Silkeberg, Alexander Skidan
music: Håkan Sandelius
De himmelshöga gobelängerna Sveriges Radio 1992
10.53 min
Håkan Sandelius and Marie Silkeberg
text&voice: Marie Silkeberg
music: Håkan Sandelius