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Jenny Tunedal (born 1973 in Malmö, Sweden) lives in the countryside outside Stockholm and works as a poet and literary critic. She studied Englaish and Comparative Literature in Lund and attended courses in journalism in Dublin. Since 2007 she has been the literary editor of thze Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. From 2004 to 2006 she was editor-in-chief of Lyrikvännen, Sweden’s oldest poetry magazine. She was awarded the Prins Eugens Culture Prize in 2005 for her work as a poet, critic and editor. She is interested in international poetry, especially American. She has translated poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Claudia Rankine.
Publications:
Hejdade, hejdade sken (Wahlström & Widstrand 2003)
Kapitel Ett (Wahlström & Widstrand 2008)
Handflata: Du ska också ha det bra (Eolit förlag, 2009)
Mitt krig, sviter (Wahlström & Widstrand 2011)
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (translation, Ellerströms förlag 2012)