Lasse Söderberg, poet and translator from a variety of languages, was born in 1931 and eventually settled in Malmö where he started and for the last thirty years has been the organizer and artistic leader of the International Poetry Days in Malmö. He has published — in addition to translations and non-fiction — more than twenty-five volumes of poetry. Lasse Söderberg’s many prizes and awards for translations and his own work include Bellmanpriset (1996).