Peter Englund

Peter Englund 2013.

Patrick Modiano and Peter Englund 2014.

Peter Englund ( pronunciation : [ ˌpeːtəɹ ˈɛŋːlɵnd ], born April 4, 1957 in Boden , Norrbotten County , Sweden ) is a Swedish historian and writer . He has been a member of the Svenska Academies since 2002 and was its permanent secretary from 2009 to 2015. His successor was the literary scholar Sara Danius .

Career

Englund was born in Boden in 1957 and grew up there. In his youth he was a member of the youth organization of the Swedish Social Democrats and a Trotskyist association. After high school and military service, he studied archeology , theoretical philosophy and history at Uppsala University from 1980 to 1983 and graduated with a bachelor's degree. After completing his studies, Englund worked as an analyst with the Swedish Army 's intelligence service and published a bestseller about the Battle of Poltava . In 1989 he was with the work huset Det hotade , a study on the world view of the Swedish nobility of the 17th century, PhD .

After completing his doctorate, he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Expressen, inter alia, as a correspondent in the war and crisis areas of Croatia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, Englund wrote successful historical books and collections of essays, published a literary magazine and was a screenwriter and commentator on various historical documentaries on Swedish television. His understandable and audience-friendly language earned Englund the reputation of being "probably the best-known PhD historian in Sweden".

In 2001 Englund was given a teaching position as professor of historical narratology at the Stockholm Dramatic Institute. In 2002 he was elected as the successor to the historian Erik Lönnroth on the 10th place (of 18 numbered places without hierarchical order) of the members of the Svenska Academies; on June 1, 2009, he took over the position of permanent secretary of the academy from Horace Engdahl . On May 31, 2015, he resigned from this office.

Awards (selection)

• 1993 August Prize for Ofredsår
• 2000 Lotten von Kræmer Prize
• 2002 Selma Lagerlöf Prize

Selection of works

• Poltava ( Poltava ), 1988
• Det hotade huset ( The Threatened House ), dissertation , 1989
• Förflutenhetens landskap ( Journeys in the Countryside of the Past ), 1991
• Ofredsår ( The Desolation of Germany ), 1993
• Brev från nollpunkte ( Letters from Zero ), 1996
• Den oövervinnerlige ( The Insurmountable ), 2000
• Tystnadens historia ( History of Silence ), 2004
• Stridens skönhet och sorg , 2008
  • German by Wolfgang Butt: Beauty and horror: A story of the First World War, told in nineteen fates . Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-670-5 , Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0218-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Englund in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Englund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of Peter Englund (Swedish)
• Curriculum vitae on the Svenska Academies website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Englund sekreterare slutar som constantly. Retrieved December 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Sybille Neveling: Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   . In: Radio Sweden from October 8, 2009
3. ↑ Robert von Lucius: Herald of the Nobel Prize . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 22, 2008