Göran Schildt (March 11, 1917 – January 24, 2009) was a Finnish Swede author and art historian. He was the son of the author Runar Schildt.[1][2]

Göran Schildt
Annusca Palme, Göran Schildt, Christine Schildt och Roberto Sambonet on board S/Y Daphne in 1963.
Born	(1917-03-11)March 11, 1917 Helsinki, Finland
Died	January 24, 2009(2009-01-24) (aged 91) Ekenäs, Finland
Alma mater	Helsinki University of Technology
Occupation	Author, art historian

Life and work

Schildt is perhaps best known for his travelogues with the sailboat Daphne. He made the decision to become a Mediterranean sailor after being seriously injured during the Finnish Winter War and forced to spend a year and a half in hospital. "Then I thought that if I can do this, I will realize my dream: I will get a boat and sail around all corners of the Mediterranean," he later said. The architect Alvar Aalto was one of the guests at Daphne and their lifelong friendship was the basis for Schildt's masterpiece, the three-part biography of Aalto.[1]

Schildt went to school at the Nya Svenska Läroverket [sv] in Helsinki. He received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on the painter Cezanne and also studied languages ​​at the Sorbonne in Paris. He moved to Sweden in 1945 and was an employee of Svenska Dagbladet 1951–1990. He was offered an art professorship at the University of Helsinki, but chose to continue as a writer.[1]

Göran Schildt lived in Villa Skeppet in Ekenäs in Finland and in Villa Kolkis on the island of Leros in Greece. He was married in 1941–1964 to the glass artist Mona Morales-Schildt and from 1966 to Christine Schildt, born Werthmann (1940–).[1]

Publications

Schildt wrote at least 30 publications in Swedish.

Awards and recognition

Person has received the following awards and recognition:

• 1950 – Mauritz Hallberg Prize [sv]
• 1952 – Tollanderska Prize [sv]
• 1981 – Svenska Akademiens Finlandspris
• 1991 – Tollanderska Prize [sv]
• 2000 – Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts

References

External links

• "Schildt, Göran". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. urn:NBN:fi:sls-5037-1416928957643.