CURRICULUM VITAE

 

VIVECA TALLGREN

 

Grew up in Helsinki, Finland.

Resident in Denmark since 1961. Danish citizen. Married to Sten Jacobsen. Has three daugthers.

 

Attended Univ. of Michigan High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1959-60.

Lived in London, Aug. – Nov. 1966, married at St. Pancreas Town Hall to Kristen Mortensen.Divorced in 1977.

Studies of English and French at the Univ. of Copenhagen, spring term 1967.

 

EDUCATION/ Degrees:

Master of Arts in Spanish philology in 1978, University of Copenhagen.

 English correspondent, 1971, Commercial College of Copenhagen.

 

Spanish:

 

Teaching:

Since my M.A. degree I have been teaching Spanish at different levels:

Upper secondary schools

University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen Business School

Courses in Spanish linguistics, culture and history:

Colegio de estudios hispánicos: Curso de didáctica del español, Salamanca, July 1996.

Universidad de Alcalá: Cursode lengua y cultura españolas para extrjanjeros, July 1998.

UNED: El arte en el límite de la muerte. / El teatro en España en la década de los noventa. Avila, July 1999.

Universidad de Salamanca: Curso para profesores de español – lengua extranjera. Aug. 2000.

Universidad de León: Curso de formación de profesores E/LE. July 2003.

UNED: Presencia del Flamenco. Barbastro, July 2006.

UNED: República y Guerra Civil. Cambrils, July 2006.

UNED: Populismos y nueva izquierda en América Latina, Ávila, July 2007.

 

Publications:

El temor al dios pan. El Innombrable, Zaragoza, 2005.

Teaching books for secondary level:

Arrabal, Danmarks Radio, 1984.

El camino de Santiago, Systime, 1995.

La vida es un tango, Systime, 2002.

Después de Tariq. Aspectos del mundo hispano-árabe. Systime 2005.

Flores de otro mundo. Gyldendal, 2008.

Papers:

About the Spanish dramatist Fernando Arrabal:

Cité Universitaire, Paris: ”La figura de la madre”, 13.4.1999.

Univ. of Bilbao: ”La narrativa de Fernando Arrabal”, 25.6.2002.

Embassy of Spain: Fernando Arrabal y la carta de amor” Oct. 2002.

Univ. of Copenhagen: La carta de amor, 7.11.2002.

Copenhagen Business School: ”Fernando Arrabal, barn af den Spanske Borgerkrig” 21.11. 2006.

Other subjects: 

Cuba:  Lecture in Havana about the national Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, July 2002.

Mexico:  Un inmigrante nórdico en México (lecture on my father who was an immigrant i Mexico for 25 years), III Congreso Internacional Alexander von Humboldt, Veracruz, July 2005.

Spain: La comunicación oral en la enseñanza de español como segunda lengua en Dinamarca. Segundo congreso de FIAPE en Granada, Sept. 2007.

Uruguay: “La religiosidad y sus efectos psicológicos en la sociedad descrita en la novela “Al filo del agua” de Agustín Yáñez. Congreso de ALFAL, Montevideo, agosto de 2008. 

 

French:

Studies of French at the Univ. of Copenhagen, spring term, 1967 

Commercial School (Købmandsskolen), level 3, 1984.

D.E.L.F. level A1 and A2, Institut Français, 2001.

Follows currently courses at Institut Français in Copenhagen.

 

Journalism:

Free lance journalist for the newspaper Kaleva, Oulu, Finland, since 1982.

Other publications for:

India Perspectives, India.

La voz de Galicia, Spain.

Morada Internacional

Almunia, Spain

Tonos Digital, (electronic cultural magazine), Spain.

La Salida, French tango magazine.

 

Translation:

Radio Denmark: Translation of short stories from Swedish and Spanish. 

Rejsen til Månedalen (from Swedish) by Mona Leo, Gyldendal, 1985.

Jesus Kristus, Karl Marx og W. Shakespeares ekstravagante triumf (Spanish) by F. Arrabal, Drama, 1984.

Claudel og Kafka by F. Arrabal, Drama, 2003.

Membership of associations:

International Press Association in Denmark

Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) 

Dansk Forfatterforening (The Danish Writers’ Union)