Gunnel Vallquist

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Gunnel Vallquist (19 June 1918 – 11 January 2016) was a Swedish writer and translator. She was elected a member of the Swedish Academy. Vallquist wrote several essays on Catholic religion in contemporary times, and translated the seven-piece novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust into Swedish.

Life

Born in Stockholm in 1918, Vallquist's father was Lieutenant Colonel Gunnar Vallquist and her mother was translator Lily Vallquist. She was educated at an all-girls’ school in Skövde Gunnel, but finished school and graduated in Stockholm. The family had moved after Gunnar Vallquist's death.<ref name=":0">Template:SKBL</ref> Vallquist was married for a short time to an officer. After her marriage, in 1939, she converted to Catholicism, at the Sankta Ingridshem chapel of the French Dominican sisters.<ref name=":0" /> She worked as a secretary in the Swedish army, before moving to Uppsala in 1941 to study Nordic and Romance languages. She earned a master's degree in 1946 at Uppsala University.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

After the Second World War, Vallquist lived in Paris, where she wrote magazine reviews, and translated literature from French to Swedish. Her translations include works by Bernanos, Balzac, Claudel, Descartes, and Weil.<ref name=":0" /> In 1950 she began to translate the seven-piece novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust into Swedish, which took her thirty years to complete. She lived in Rome from 1955 to 1958.<ref name=":1" /> Vallquist wrote several essays on Catholic religion in contemporary times, among them reports from the Second Vatican Council.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1970s, Vallquist was part of a bible commission charged with making a new translation of the New Testament, but she resigned in protest against the way the translation was being carried out.<ref name=":0" />

Vallquist was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1982.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She died in Bromma in 2016.<ref name=":0" />

Bibliography

• Något att leva för (1956)
• Giorgio La Pira : borgmästare och profet (1957)
• Ett bländande mörker (1958)
• Till dess dagen gryr : anteckningar 1950–1958 (1959)
• Vägar till Gud (1960)
• Den oförstådda kärleken (1961)
• Helgonens svar (1963)
• Dagbok från Rom. D. 1, Journalistminnen från Vatikankonciliet (1964)
• Dagbok från Rom. D. 2, Reformation i Vatikanen? (1964)
• Dagbok från Rom. D. 3, Kyrkligt, världsligt, kvinnligt (1965)
• Dagbok från Rom. D. 4, Uppbrott (1966)
• Kyrkor i uppbrott (1968)
• Interkommunion? : synpunkter på en kristen livsfråga (1969)
• Följeslagare (1975)
• Morgon och afton (1976)
• Sökare och siare : essayer (1982)
• Anders Österling : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1982)
• Steg på vägen (1983)
• Notiser om Franska akademien (1985)
• Helena Nyblom (1987)
• Den romerske kuries metoder (1993)
• Katolska läroår : Uppsala-Paris-Rom (1995)
• Vad väntar vi egentligen på? : texter om kristen enhet 1968–2002
• Guds ord till människorna : skrift och tradition enligt Dei Verbum (2007); co-authors: Rainer Carls & Birger Olsson
• Texter i urval (2008)
• Herre, låt mig få brinna : anteckningar 1950–1958 (2009)