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.
Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation,in particular for devising Shor's algorithm,a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.
Gertrude "Trudy"Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist,who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs. This new method focused on understanding the target of the drug rather than simply using trial-and-error. Her work led to the creation of the anti-retroviral drug AZT,which was the first drug widely used against AIDS. Her well known works also include the development of the first immunosuppressive drug,azathioprine,used to fight rejection in organ transplants,and the first successful antiviral drug,acyclovir (ACV),used in the treatment of herpes infection.
Doris Dörrie is a German film director,producer and author.
Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a Swedish poet and writer. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019. In 2003,Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in recognition of her services to literature.
Klas Östergren is a Swedish novelist,short story writer,screenwriter,and translator.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Susan Solomon is an American atmospheric chemist,working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011,Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry &Climate Science. Solomon,with her colleagues,was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.
Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Sara Brita Stridsberg is a Swedish author and playwright. Her first novel,Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer,who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.
The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to an author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in 1983 and has been awarded annually since 1984. Recipients receive 100,000 Swedish kronor. The awards ceremony takes place in Sunne every August 13 and is in honor of Selma Lagerlöf.
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian,television host,actress,writer,and producer. She starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998,which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for "The Puppy Episode". She also hosted the syndicated television talk show,The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2003 to 2022,for which she received 33 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Tua Birgitta Forsström is a Finland-Swedish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape,travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work,sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell,Ludwig Wittgenstein,Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection After Spending a Night Among Horses (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker,they are placed as interludes in a sequence of pieces and sit alone on the page,without direct reference to their source on the page,leaving this to a Notes &Quotations section at the end of the book.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually,since 1901,to an author from any country who has,in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel,"in the field of literature,produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction". Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy,the award is based on an author's body of work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who,if anyone,will receive the prize. The academy announces the name of the laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. Literature is traditionally the final award presented at the Nobel Prize ceremony. On some occasions the award has been postponed to the following year,most recently in 2018 as of May 2022.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,is an economics award administered by the Nobel Foundation.
Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher,and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University,docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
Johanna Sofia Nikolina Feltzing is a Swedish astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Lund University since 2011. She completed her PhD at Uppsala University in 1996,publishing a dissertation about the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Feltzing was the first woman to complete a PhD in astronomy at Uppsala,and the tenth in Sweden. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Institute of Astronomy,Cambridge at Cambridge University from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 she moved to Lund Observatory.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The prize was announced the following year by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019. Tokarczuk is the sixth Nobel laureate in Literature from Poland after the poet Wisława Szymborska in 1996,and Czesław Miłosz in 1980.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Tanzanian-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who the Swedish Academy members praised "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." The winner was announced on October 7,2021,by Mats Malm,permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
