Jesper Svenbro is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy. Svenbro was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la po�tique grecque, on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include Phrasikleia: anthropologie de la lecture en Gr�ce ancienne. He is director of research at Centre Louis Gernet in Paris. In 2006, he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding the poet �sten Sj�strand in seat 8. His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-H�kan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press. 

March 10th, 1944 in Landskrona (Age 80)