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.
Sture Allén was a Swedish professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg,who was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. Born in Gothenburg,he was elected to chair 3 of the Swedish Academy in 1980. He was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sweden is the arms of dominion of the King of Sweden. It has a greater and a lesser version. The shield displays the "Three Crowns of Sweden" quartering the "Lion of Bjelbo",with an inescutcheon overall of the House of Vasa impaling the House of Bernadotte.
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.
Jesper Svenbro is a Swedish poet,classical philologist,and member of the Swedish Academy.
Ulf Harald Linde was a Swedish art critic,writer,museum director and a member of the Swedish Academy.
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.
Nils Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer,poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.
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.
Anders Olsson is a Swedish writer,professor of literature at Stockholm University,literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle. Another common instrument,unique to Swedish traditions,is the nyckelharpa. Most Swedish instrumental folk music is dance music;the signature music and dance form within Swedish folk music is the polska. Vocal and instrumental traditions in Sweden have tended to share tunes historically,though they have been performed separately. Beginning with the folk music revival of the 1970s,vocalists and instrumentalists have also begun to perform together in folk music ensembles.
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.
Tomas Staffan Riad is a Swedish linguist,specialised in Swedish phonology and prosody. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1992 and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there. Riad is also a violinist,trained at the Royal College of Music in London and has worked as a full-time musician. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011.
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.
Per Svante Gudmund Nordin is a Swedish historian of ideas and author. He is a professor of history of ideas at Lund University.
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 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.
