Kjell Borgström
(April 12, 1927 – December 23, 1997)
Kjell Borgström, a Swedish fan whose unlikely full name was David Hilding Kjell Ethelbert Furness Borgström, found fandom in the early 1960s and became a member of the Stockholm club SFSF, where he remained active until his final years, for a number of years as writer of the meeting minutes. He was a close friend of Lars-Olov Strandberg, and for many years they travelled together to foreign sf conventions.
He published a perzine, Det lutande lärkträdet ("The Leaning Larch Tree"), with seven issues from 1967 until 1970, edited one issue of SF Forum in 1970, and published the sercon fanzine SF Syntes with five issues 1971−74.
In mundane life a bank officer, Borgström became known primarily as Swedish fandom's most significant sf poet, publishing hundreds of extremely imaginative and often ironic poems, often with the feel of being brief visions of unimaginably alien beings and worlds. In 1969, his first around 80 poems were collected in a oneshot fanzine, Den suckande tungan ["The Sighing Tongue"], edited and produced by John-Henri Holmberg, Mats Linder and Bertil Mårtensson; it was long a sought-after collectors' item. In 1997, SFSF published a further collection of his poems, En slags parallell ["A Kind of Parallel"], in book format. He was one of the two significant poets to emerge from Swedish fandom, though in contrast with the other, Gothenburg fanne Helena Eriksson, he never achieved any recognition from the outside world.
- Det lutande lärkträdet [1967–70]
- SF Forum [1970] (one issue)
- En slags parallell [1997] (published by SFSF)
- Den suckande tungan [1969] (published by John-Henri Holmberg, Mats Linder and Bertil Mårtensson)
- SF Syntes [1971–74]
| Person | 1927—1997 |
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