Sebastian Lybeck

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Carl Mikael Sebastian Lybeck (3 August 1929 – 11 November 2020) was a Finland-Swedish author and translator who lived and worked in Finland and in his later years in Sweden. He was the grandson of Mikael Lybeck (1864–1925).

Lybeck's parents were the artist Nils Lybeck and the ceramist Marita Hahl. Lybeck graduated from Grankulla svenska samskola in 1947.

Career

After university studies in Turku and Helsinki and Kadettskolan in Santahamina from 1949 to 1951, he worked as a journalist at Hufvudstadsbladet (1951–1952), Nya Pressen (1954) and Västra Nyland (1954–1955). He also worked as a salesman for Michelin from 1952 to 1953 and as a freelance journalist, construction worker, farmer and fisherman, among other things.

Afterwards he lived in various places in Norway, Denmark and Sweden; 1957 in Stockholm, 1959–1964 in Lofoten in Norway, then mainly in Sweden: during the 1970s in Uddevalla, since 2004 in Stockholm.

Personal life

From 1958 he was married to the Norwegian teacher Berthe Marie Ruud (who died 2007) with whom he had two daughters. Sebastian Lybeck is buried at Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm.

Bibliography

Awards

• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 1959 (for the book Latte Igel und der Wasserstein)
• Längmanska kulturfondens Finlandprize 1966

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