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 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.
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.
Kjell Erik Espmark was a Swedish writer,literary historian,member of the Swedish Academy,and Professor of the History of Literature at Stockholm University. He was elected to the Swedish Academy on 5 March 1981 and admitted on 20 December 1981. Kjell Espmark succeeded the linguist Elias Wessén to Seat No.16. He was chair of the Swedish Academy's Nobel committee between 1987 and 2004.
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,here meaning for 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.
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.
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. Handke is the second Austrian Nobel laureate in Literature after Elfriede Jelinek,who won the prize in 2004.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to 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 fifth Nobel laureate in Literature from Poland writing in Polish,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.
The 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." For political reasons he would not receive the prize until 1974. Solzhenitsyn is the fourth Russian recipient of the prize after Ivan Bunin in 1933,Boris Pasternak in 1958 and Mikhail Sholokhov in 1965.
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.
The 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) "in consideration of the power of observation,originality of imagination,virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." He is the first English-language writer to receive the prize,and being aged 41,is its youngest recipient to date.
Pennskaftet is a 1910 novel by the Swedish writer Elin Wägner.
