Grupo Taller de Estocolmo

Group Taller of Stockholm. Was an assembly of Chilean writers founded on 1977, in Sweden, by the poets Sergio Infante, Adrián Santini, Carlos Geywitz, Sergio Badilla Castillo and the prosa writer Edgardo Mardones.

History

The Group Taller of Stockholm had a leading assignment in the diffusion of Chilean and Hispano-American Literature , during the final decades of XX century in Scandinavia . Its collective accomplishments were supported by the Swedish writer Sun Axelsson, who served as a link with the intellectual circles in the Nordic countries.

An significant segment of their initials publications, arose in this stage of joint creativity, with books such as: On exiles of Sergio Infante, After the Centaur of Adrian Santini, the Eye of the Wrath of Carlos Geywitz, and the Sign’s Dwelling of Sergio Badilla Castillo.

In 1991 Infante, Badilla, Santini and Geywitz, were included in the first Chilean poetry anthology in Swedish: Bevingade Lejon (Winged Lion), published by the largest book publishing company in Sweden, namely Bonniers Förlag, compiled and translated by Sun Axelsson.

This literary community ended its activities definitively at the end of the eighties.