| Jesper Svenbro | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 10 March 1944 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Landskrona, Sweden | ||||||||
| Birth Name: | Bengt Åke Jesper Svenbro | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Swedish | ||||||||
| Language: | Swedish | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Lund University | ||||||||
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Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Svenbro was born in Landskrona, Scania, Sweden. He was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include : (1988). He is director of research at Centre Louis Gernet (CRCSA) in Paris. In 2006, he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding the poet Östen Sjöstrand in seat 8.
His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press. In 2010, Svenbro was awarded the Illis quorum in the eighth size by the Swedish government.