Thorsten Jonsson (1910–1950) was a Swedish writer, journalist and translator.
Jonsson grew up in a small village in Västerbotten. He studied at Stockholms högskola and then worked as journalist for various newspapers, including Dagens Nyheter. In 1943 he became Dagens Nyheters correspondent in United States. A selection of his articles as a correspondent were published in the book Sidor av Amerika in 1946.
Jonsson was praised for his translations of American writers like Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck and wrote several essays on contemporary American literature. Six studies were published in the book Sex amerikaner: Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Farrell, Saroyan in 1942.
As a writer he published two books of poems, two short story collections and the acclaimed novel Konvoj, published in 1947. Dimman från havet, a book of four stories set in America, an essay collection and his collected short stories were published posthumously.
Bibliography Utflykt, 1933 Stor-Norrland och litteraturen, 1938 Som ett träd, 1939 Som det brukar vara, 1939 Martin Koch, 1941 Fly till vatten och morgon, 1941 Sex amerikaner: Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Farrell, Saroyan, 1942 Sidor av Amerika: Intryck och resonemang, 1946 Konvoj, 1947 Dimman från havet, 1950 Synpunkter, 1951 Noveller, 1955 Berättelser från Amerika, 2007
Translations (selected) A. J. Cronin Citadellet (The Citadel), 1938 Ernest Hemingway Att ha och inte ha (To Have and Have Not), 1939 John Steinbeck Vredens druvor (The Grapes of Wrath), 1940 Ernest Hemingway Klockan klämtar för dig (For Whom the Bell Tolls), 1940 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, 1942 Ernest Hemingway Snön på Kilimandjaro och andra noveller (The Snows of Kilimanjaro), 1942 Erskine Caldwell Avlöning vid Savannah River (Savannah River Payday), 1942 John Steinbeck Den långa dalen (The Long Valley), 1943 John Steinbeck Månen har gått ned (The Moon is Down), 1943 Dylan Thomas En varm lördag (One Warm Saturday), 1943 E. E. Cummings poems, included in Sidor av Amerika, 1946 Mörk sång: Fyrtiofem amerikanska negerdikter (anthology of afroamerican poetry), 1949
References Thorsten Jonsson Riksarkivet Jonsson Thorsten Jonsson Svenskt översättarlexikon