Fredrik Nyberg was born in 1968 in Gothenburg where he still lives. He debuted in 1998 with the poetry-book En annorlunda praktik (A Different Practice) that in translation by Jennifer Hayashida was short-listed for Best Translated Book Award in 2008.
In all Fredrik Nyberg has published five books of poetry: En annorlunda praktik (1998), Blomsterur (2000), Åren (2002), Det blir inte rättvist bara för att båda blundar (2006) and Nio, nine, neun, neuf (2008). Together with his wife Lotta Magnusson Nyberg he has also written the children's book Pandi och kamelen träffar surikaterna (2007).
Diagonals.
The scent of chlorine.
I must have slept since I wake up.
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I only grow older
Your head is excessively pale and still.
If Europe's history is true, I want to learn it as one learns
a song. Today when I was going out to buy chips and
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The will is horizontal.
The plants' fat casings shine for a long time.
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The date belongs to the photograph
Roland Barthes
Dates, seasons;
a pair of slow residential streets
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Tuesday.
Is God an in- or exhalation?
Snow does not fall silently (oblong) everywhere.
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