Anders Olsson (born 19 June 1949) is a Swedish writer,professor of literature at Stockholm University,literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Olsson has written some 15 books on poetry and the history of literature;together with his friend and ally Horace Engdahl he was a key introducer of the work of Jacques Derrida and other post-structuralist thinkers into Swedish literary research and criticism. His doctoral dissertation on Swedish poet and essayist Gunnar Ekelöf was published in 1983 and met with mostly favourable reviews.[1] He was appointed professor of literature at Stockholm University in 2004 and his research interests include the development of modern literature.[2]
Olsson was member of the Kris editorial staff.[3] In 1984 he published his first collection of poems,Dagar,aska.
In February 2008,Olson was elected a member of the Swedish Academy,by secret ballot to succeed poet and writer Lars Forssell who died in 2007,[4] and he formally took his seat in the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2008.
From 13 April 2018 he served as the pro tempore permanent secretary of the Academy,following a controversy when Sara Danius was forced to resign.[5] Anders Olsson then served as the permanent secretary of the Academy between 1 June 2018 and 1 June 2019.[6] He is currently the chairman of the Academy's Nobel Committee for Literature.[7]
Bibliography
Mälden mellan stenarna (1981)
Ekelöfs nej (1983) (doctoral dissertation)
Intertextualitet (1984)
Dagar,aska (1984)
De antända polerna (1986)
Den okända texten:en essäom tolkningsteori från kyrkofäderna till Derrida (1987)
Bellerofontes resa (1988)
Solstämma (1991)
Den Andra Födan (1992)
Det vita (1993)
Ekelunds hunger (1995)
Att skriva dagen:Gunnar Björlings poetiska värld (1995)
Gunnar Ekelöf (1997)
Ett mått av lycka (1998)
Läsningar av intet (2000)
Skillnadens konst:sex kapitel om moderna fragment (2006)
Lars Forssell:inträdestal i Svenska akademien (2008)
Men såoändligt lätt att svara dig (2010)
Ordens asyl:inledning till den moderna exillitteraturen (2011)
Vad är en suck?:en essäom Erik Johan Stagnelius (2013)
Languages of Exile –Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature (2013)
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
The Swedish Academy, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel.
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.
Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian born on April 4, 1957. He focuses on writing non-fiction books and essays, mostly about the Swedish Empire and other historical events. Englund is known for his accessible writing style, which includes narrative details that are often left out in traditional history books. His works have been translated into multiple languages, including German and Czech. From 2009 to 2015, Englund served as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, before being succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019, he and fellow academy member Kjell Espmark announced their return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018.
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