Birth centenary of Per Anders Fogelström

    Sweden  2017.06.01

    In issue: Stamp(s): 6    Sheet(s): 1    Booklet(s): 1   

    Printing: multicoloral offset on self-adhesive paper

    Issued in: booklets of 5 stamps (in one series) and in a small sheet of 4 stamps (only one type)

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 3168   Yvert: 3145  

    Perforation type: 13x12 ¾

    Subject:

    21 Swedish krona.

    Photo from the book by Per Anders* "History and stories around Lake Hammarby"**.
    On the hill near the shore of lake stands a windmill.

    A stamp in a small sheet is distinguished from its counterpart from the booklet only by a quotation from the book, written in micro-font at the very top.


  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 3170   Yvert: 3147  

    Perforation: Harrow   Perforation type: 13 ½x14

    Subject:

    The plot and design completely repeat the stamp issued in the mini sheet (except for the micro font at the top of the stamp).

    Additional:

    *Per Anders Fogelström (22 August 1917, Stockholm – 20 June 1998 Stockholm) was a Swedish writer, and one of the leading figures in modern Swedish literature. He spent his whole life in Stockholm, and the most famous of the more than 40 books he wrote in total is a series of five novels set in the Swedish capital that he dearly loved, describing the lives of successive generations of Stockholmers between 1860 and 1968.

    An active pacifist, Fogelström served as director of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (Swedish: Svenska freds- och skiljedomsföreningen) from 1963 to 1977. He was also a member of the Swedish Vietnam Committee (Swedish: Svenska Vietnamkommittén), an organization opposing the Vietnam War, and a strong opponent of nuclear weapons.

    He received an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University in 1976, and was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus in 1996. After his death, a bust of Fogelström was unveiled in Stockholm City Hall.

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    **"History and stories around Hammarby lake"

    "Two girls drowned in Hammarby lake, who can believe that they wanted to die. They tied up at midnight and then the boat ran aground, failing. " This is how it was written about the tragic event when two girls committed suicide in Hammarby lake in 1911. Per Anders Fogelström tells about it and much more. The chapter also contains many photos and pictures that show a rural idyll where now Hammarby Sjöstad's residential areas are expanding.

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    Hammarby sjö (Swedish: "Lake Hammarby") is a watercourse in central Stockholm. Separating Stockholm City Centre from South Stockholm.

    Covering a surface of 34 hectares and having an average depth of 4.5 metres (maximum 6 metres), Hammarby sjö is supplied by a drainage area covering 159 hectares and contains 1,600,000 cubic metres of water. Originally a lake about 3 metres deep, it was transformed into a canal when connected to Saltsjön in the 1920s and a 6 metres deep channel was dug.

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    The information used was taken from Wikipedia