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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

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