Nina Burton

Eva Ulla Nina Burton is a Swedish poet and essayist.

Career

Burton's writings have, among other things, focused on the intersection between natural sciences and humanities. The essay book Den nya kvinnostaden was nominated for the August Prize in 2005. Her book Flodernas bok won Stora fackbokspriset in 2012. In 2016 Burton was awarded the August Prize for non-fiction for Gutenberggalaxens nova. She was nominated to the culture prize of Dagens Nyheter in 2021 for her book Livets tunna väggar.
She has been a member of the Samfundet De Nio literary society since 1994 and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2009.

1984 – Mellan eld och skugga. Studier i den lyriska motsägelsen hos Werner Aspenström
1987 – Bakom den gröna dörren
1988 – Den hundrade poeten
1991 – Alkemins blå eld, tillsammans med Saleh Oweini
1994 – Resans syster, poesin
1998 – Det splittrade alfabetet
2000 – De röda minustalen
2002 – Det som muser viskat
2005 – Den nya kvinnostaden
2008 – Ett svar i 24 skärvor
2012 – Flodernas bok
2016 – Gutenberggalaxens nova: En essäberättelse om Erasmus av Rotterdam, humanismen och 1500-talets medierevolution
2020 – Livets tunna väggar
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2006 – Gerard Bonniers essäpris
2007 – Aspenströmpriset
2007 – Gun och Olof Engqvists stipendium
2007 – Letterstedtska författarpriset
2008 – Sorescupriset
2012 – Stora fackbokspriset
2016 – August Prize for Gutenberggalaxens nova: En essäberättelse om Erasmus av Rotterdam, humanismen och 1500-talets medierevolution
2017 – Svenska Akademiens essäpris
2020 – Övralidspriset