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.
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.
Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian. Englund writes non-fiction books and essays,mainly about history. Especially about the Swedish Empire,but also about other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style,providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages,such as German and Czech. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2015,when he was succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019 Englund announced that he,and fellow academy member Kjell Espmark,would return as active members of the Swedish academy,where they had been inactive since April 2018.
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.
Knut Emil Ahnlund was a Swedish literary historian,writer,and member of the Swedish Academy.
Norra Real is an upper-secondary school,located on Roslagsgatan 1 in Stockholm,Sweden. The school is the oldest upper-secondary school in Stockholm and one of the most difficult to get accepted into.
Nils Göran David Malmqvist was a Swedish linguist,literary historian,sinologist and translator. He was also a member of the Swedish Academy between 1985 and 2019.
Ulf Harald Linde was a Swedish art critic,writer,museum director and a member of the Swedish Academy.
Nils Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer,poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.
Anders Olsson is a Swedish writer,professor of literature at Stockholm University,literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Artes was a Swedish cultural magazine about art,music and literature published between 1975 and 2005 in Sweden. Compared to younger magazines,it was known for its stability,genuine quality and as somewhat culturally conservative.
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.
Carl David af Wirsén was a Swedish poet,literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary 1884–1912.
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.
Lars Lönnroth is a Swedish literary scholar.
Jean-Claude Arnault,known in Swedish media as kulturprofilen,is a French-Swedish convicted sex offender. He worked as a photographer and is the former artistic director of the cultural center Forum –Nutidsplats för kultur Stockholm.
Mats Ulrik Malm is a Swedish literary writer and translator. On 18 October 2018,Malm was elected a member of the Swedish Academy,on 26 April 2019 he was elected the new Permanent Secretary and Speaker of the Swedish Academy.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 10 October 2019.
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.
The 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded jointly to Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) "for a narrative art,farseeing in lands and ages,in the service of freedom" and Harry Martinson (1904–1978) "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." The winners were announced in October 1974 by Karl Ragnar Gierow,permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy,and later sparked heavy criticisms from the literary world.
