Mats Malm

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Mats Malm at the Gothenburg Book Fair Bok & Bibliotek , 2016

Mats Ulrik Malm (born May 10, 1964 ) is a Swedish Scandinavian scholar , literary historian , university professor and translator . Malm has been a member of the Swedish Academy since December 2018 and its permanent secretary and spokesperson since June 2019 .

Life and career

Malm studied Scandinavian Studies at the University of Gothenburg , where he also received his doctorate in 1987 . In the 1998/99 academic year he was visiting professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2004 he has been Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He also became head of a large-scale national digitization project called Litteraturbanken , which aims to make large parts of older Swedish literature generally accessible online. As an expert for digital humanities , Malm gave a guest lecture in the Marbach literature archive on April 9, 2019 .

As a Scandinavian translator, the literary scholar has translated some Icelandic sagas into Swedish. Malm has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Literature, History and Antiquities since 2012 . He is also a board member of Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, the Swedish national society for literary studies and a member of the Royal Society for Science and Literature in Gothenburg . On October 18, 2018, Malm was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, where on December 20, 2018, he succeeded Klas Östergren in seat no. 11 took over. On April 26, 2019, it was announced that Malm had been elected to succeed Anders Olsson as the new Permanent Secretary and Spokesman of the Swedish Academy. He will take up office on June 1, 2019 and has promised to continue the consolidation work that has already started there.

Fonts

  • Voluptuous Language and Poetic Ambivalence. The Example of Swedish Baroque , Peter Lang Verlag , Frankfurt am Main etc. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-59299-1 .
  • Runology , pages 217-228 in: Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches, volume 1 / edited by Jürg Glauser, Pernille Hermann and Stephen A. Mitchell, Walter De Gruyter , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-110-44020-1 .
  • Minervas äpple: om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism (1996)
  • Text author: de första svenska romanernas villkor (2001)
  • Det liderliga språket: poetisk ambivalens i svensk "barock" (2004)
  • Poesin's roaster: avlyssningar av äldre literature (2011)
  • The soul of poetry redefined: vacillations of mimesis from Aristotle to romanticism (2012)

Translations

Awards

  • 2010: Schückska Prize from the Swedish Academy

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Website of the national Swedish project Litteraturbanken , accessed on April 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Digital originals. Reading , PM 18/2019 German Literature Archive Marbach from April 2, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019
  3. ↑ The Swedish Academy appoints a new Permanent Secretary , svenskaakademien.se/en/, published and accessed on April 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Ny ledamot i Svenska academies , Swedish Academy, October 19, 2018. Retrieved on April 26, 2019
  5. ↑ Insider trading at the Nobel Prize for Literature , tagesspiegel.de, December 20, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2019
  6. ↑ Mats Malm becomes permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy , Tiroler Tageszeitung / dpa report, published and accessed on April 26, 2019
  7. ↑ Minervas äpple: om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism , ISBN 91-7139-290-4 , SELIBR 7607584 .
  8. ↑ Textens auktoritet: de första svenska romanernas villkor , ISBN 91-7139-508-3 , SELIBR 8370690 .
  9. ↑ Det liderliga språket: poetisk ambivalens i svensk "barock" , ISBN 9171396667 , SELIBR 9511890 .
  10. ↑ Poesin's roaster: avlyssningar av äldre litteratur , ISBN 9789171398796 , SELIBR 12755940 .
  11. ↑ The soul of poetry redefined: vacillations of mimesis from Aristotle to Romanticism , ISBN 9788763537421 , SELIBR 12639314 .
  12. ↑ Götriks saga: en fornaldarsaga , ISBN 91-86020-94-3 , SELIBR 7754251 .
  13. ↑ Gisle Surssons saga , ISBN 91-7842-146-2 , SELIBR 7668206 .
  14. ↑ Om François Rabelais' liv och skrifter , ISBN 91-86270-36-2 , SELIBR 7756434 .
  15. ↑ Snorres Edda , ISBN 91-7842-217-5 , SELIBR 7668243 .
  16. ↑ Islänningasagorna: samtliga släktsagor och fyrtionio tåtar , ISBN 978-9935-9199-2-2 , SELIBR 16543014 .
  17. ↑ Islänningasagorna: samtliga släktsagor och fyrtionio tåtar , ISBN 978-9935-9199-2-2 , SELIBR 16543014 .
personal data
SURNAME Malm, Mats
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malm, Mats Ulrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish literary historian, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1964