Anders Hallengren

Swedish poet and scholar. He has made public appearances in many countries, including the USA, Canada, England, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, China, India, South Africa and Australia. In 1984, by then working as a travellng foreign-affairs journalist, Hallengren published a book on the postcolonial tug-of-war over Africa (Cuba in Africa: A Turning Point in Great-Power Politics – Decolonization and Détente in Conflict). He has published monographs on the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Code of Concord, 1994), the Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (Gallery of Mirrors, 1998), and the Italian poet Francis Petrarch (Petrarca i Provence, 2003).