Barbro Karlén

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Barbro Karlén
Born(1954-05-24)24 May 1954
Swedish poetry
Autobiography
Notable works
  • Man on Earth
  • And the Wolves Howled
  • When the Storm Comes
  • A Moment in The Blossom Kingdom

Barbro Karlén (24 May 1954 – 12 October 2022), later Barbro Ask-Upmark, was a Swedish writer of both prose and poetry, and a dressage rider.

Career

Karlén became a prolific writer from an early age. A book of her poetry, Människan på jorden (published in English as Man on Earth), published when she was 12 years old, became a best-seller[1] and led to her widespread recognition within Sweden as a child prodigy.[2]

Karlén claimed to have memories of being

Binjamin Wilkomirski, condemned Karlén's claims as nonsense: "It is a fraud in a moral sense." He contended that Karlén was "simply disturbed", a rhetoric which ironically mirrored later criticism leveled against his own debunked claims.[5]

Karlén, now known as Ask-Upmark, later had a career as a dressage rider. She moved to the USA in 1999 and was in 2002 awarded the United States Dressage Federation Gold Medal Award,[6] and later Silver and Bronze medal in 2006.[7] In 2006 she started to work for Racewood Simulators as an expert and rider developing simulators for education and training of dressage riders. In 2016 she went to Tryon International Equestrian Center & Resort for a similar position.[8]

Family

Barbro Karlén was the daughter of Sölve Carlén and Maria Carlsson, but became the step-daughter to professor Erik Ask-Upmark [sv] and changed her surname to "Ask-Upmark". She was married to Lars Sjögreen 1972–1973 and they are parents to the musician Erik Ask-Upmark born 1973.

Barbro died after a long term illness on October 12, 2022. [9]

References

  1. ^ Christopher Bigsby, Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/remembering-and-imagining-the-holocaust/memory-theft/FC4B109FB02AA2AD93CFA4F20EB64B79
  2. ^ Barbro Karlén, Man on Earth, P.J. Kennedy & Sons 1968
  3. ISBN 978-0-252-06823-2
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  4. ISBN 190263618X
    . Swedish original: Fragment av ett liv, Bokförlaget Robert Larson AB 2005.
    ISBN 9789151403168
  5. ISBN 978-0-393-04871-1
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  6. ^ "2002 Gold Medal Award". United States Dressage Federation. 2002-09-01. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  7. ^ "Centerline Scores - Barbro Ask-Upmark". Centerline Scores. Archived from the original on 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  8. ^ "In Memoriam: Barbro Ask-Upmark". Tryon International Equestrian Center. 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  9. ^ https://tryon.com/article/in-memoriam-barbro-ask-upmark

External links

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