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.
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation:for a narrative art,far-seeing in lands and ages,in the service of freedom.
Per Olov Enquist,also known as P. O. Enquist,was a Swedish author. He had worked as a journalist,playwright and novelist.
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.
Ellen Mattson is a Swedish writer. Her first fictional work to be published in English translation was Snow (2005),a historical novel set in the early 18th century.
Sun Axelsson was a Swedish poet,novelist,translator and journalist.
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She published her first novel,Gösta Berling's Saga,at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature,which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally,she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish writer.
Drömfakulteten is a 2006 novel by the Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg. The main character of the narrative is the American radical feminist Valerie Solanas. The novel received the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2011 it was voted as the best Swedish novel from the 2000s (decade) in a poll held by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter,which involved one hundred Swedish critics,authors,journalists and publishers.
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.
Lena Andersson is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard. In the same year,the same book won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Marie Hermanson is a Swedish writer and journalist. Many of her novels evoke fairy tales and myths,characterized by her sensually realist style. The Devil's Sanctuary,her first novel to be translated into English,appeared in 2013.
Ingela Strandberg is a Swedish poet,children's writer,novelist,playwright,translator,journalist and musician. She gained recognition with her novel Mannen som trodde att han var Fritiof Andersson in 1983.
Kjell Dietrich Johannes Bah Kuhnke,is a Swedish actor and singer. He has acted in several films and received international attention in 2014 for his role in the film Force Majeure. In 2010,he participated as a singer in Melodifestivalen with the song "Tonight". In addition to acting in films and on television,he has performed in plays such as Cabaret and The Jungle Book. He is married to Swedish politician Alice Bah Kuhnke.
Siri Margareta Augusta Suber,known as Margareta Suber,was a Swedish writer. She is best known as a novelist but was also a travel writer,translator,poet and children's writer.
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.
