Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy
The Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy ( Swedish Svenska Akademiens nordiska pris ) is a literary prize that is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm . The award was donated on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the academy in 1986 and is endowed with 400,000 crowns (approx. 42,144 euros ). This makes the Nordic Prize the second highest endowed prize awarded by the Swedish Academy. Eligible for the award are writers from the Nordic countries who have made outstanding contributions in one of the Academy's activities or areas of interest. In reference to the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded annually by the Academy members , the award in Scandinavia is also known as the “small Nobel Prize”.
The award winners are honored annually on April 5th, the Academy's Foundation Day , in the Aktienhalle ( Swedish Börssalen ) of the Börshuset by academy members. The winner of the Nordic Prize will then give a speech.
Award winners
The most common Nordic award winners were Swedish authors (10 wins), followed by their colleagues from Norway (8), Finland (7), Denmark (6), Iceland (3) and the Faroe Islands (one win). Women were successful in 1994, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2020, while the poet Tomas Tranströmer , 1991 laureate, was the only winner of the Nordic Prize to date to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Web links
- Official website (Swedish)
- Entry in the store norske leksikon (swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Priser och stipendier - Nordiska priset at svenskaakademien.se (accessed on March 22, 2017).
- ^ "Small Nobel Prize" to Dag Solstad at boersenblatt.net, March 21, 2017 (accessed March 21, 2017).