Horace Engdahl

Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic. He has been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1999.

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December 30 - 1948 - Swedish - Swedish Academy

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Engdahl was born in Karlskrona, Sweden. He earned his his B.A. in 1970 at Stockholm University, and began his doctoral studies there; he completed his Ph.D. only in 1987, with a study on Swedish romanticism, but had meanwhile been active as a literary critic, translator and journal editor, and was one of the introducers of the continental tradition of literary scholarship in Sweden. He is currently adjunct professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He speaks Swedish, English, German, French and Russian fluently.

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Karlskrona - Stockholm University - Romanticism - University of Aarhus - Denmark - Swedish - English - German - French - Russian

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In 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to the seat vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt; in 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i.e. its executive member and spokesperson. As such, he has the annual task of announcing the recipient of the Nobel prize in literature to the press.

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Swedish Academy - Johannes Edfelt - 1999 - Sture Allén - Nobel prize in literature

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He is married to Ebba Witt-Brattström, professor of literature at the Södertörn University College outside Stockholm. Together they have the sons Caspar, Marcel and Fabius.

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Ebba Witt-Brattström - Södertörn University College - Stockholm

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