Horace Engdahl

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Horace Engdahl, 2008

Horace Engdahl ( pronunciation : [ ˌhɔɹːas ˈɛŋːdɑːl ], born December 30, 1948 in Karlskrona ) is a Swedish literary scholar , critic , essayist and translator . From 1999 to 2009 he was Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy . Engdahl was married to Ebba Witt-Brattström , a well-known feminist and professor of literature , from 1989 to 2014 .

In 1987 Engdahl, who was already established as a critic, received his doctorate from Stockholm University with a dissertation on Swedish Romanticism. As a result, he continued to work as a freelance essayist and critic in the popular daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter , before he was appointed professor of Scandinavian literature at the Danish University of Aarhus in 2004 . Engdahl also worked as a translator. Among other things, he translated Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon and Penthesilea into Swedish.

Engdahl was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1997, and in 1999 he took over the post of permanent secretary to Sture Allén . In this capacity, Horace Engdahl announced the name of the Nobel Prize winner for literature every October . He is fluent in German, English, French and Russian. He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2008 .

On June 1, 2009, Engdahl handed over his office as secretary to the historian Peter Englund . He is still an ordinary member of the body with voting rights. On March 5, 2019, it was announced that Engdahl is leaving the Nobel Committee because of his involvement in the Swedish Academy crisis of 2018 .

Together with Liv Strömquist , he traveled through Europe for a television program to visit various places of education. Liv och Horace i Europa was broadcast by SVT in 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Horace Engdahl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Horace Engdahl. Academia Europaea, accessed October 13, 2017 .
  2. ^ Jury chairman Engdahl resigns from FAZ.NET from December 21, 2008
  3. ↑ Horace Engdahl lämnar Nobelkommittén , SVT, accessed on March 5, 2019 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svtplay.se
personal data
SURNAME Engdahl, Horace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish literary scholar, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlskrona