Do you know what bottle is called in Hebrew?" he asks. "It's called baqbuk from the gurgling sound it makes when you pour. Did you know the Swedish word for pain, smSrta, is similar to the Russian word for death - smert?
[Lars Gustafsson] was born in Västerås, a city in central Sweden, in 1936. He studied at Uppsala University and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. Along the way, Gustafsson has picked up a number of prizes and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow of Poetry in 1994 and the Italian Una vita per Ia Letteratura in 1989, and he is a member of several academies, like Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. And though a heavy intellectuality is pr...
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