Sara Danius

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Sara Danius (2016)

Sara Maria Danius (born April 5, 1962 in Täby ; died October 12, 2019 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish literary scholar .

Life

Sara Danius was born in 1962 as the daughter of professional officer Lars Danius and the writer Anna Wahlgren . She first studied philology at Stockholm University and wrote literary critical articles for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter during her studies . She earned a Master of Arts in Critical Theory from Nottingham University in 1989 . In 1989 she married Stefan Jonsson, the couple had a son and later divorced. She was trained as a croupier . She received her PhD from Duke University in 1997 and from Uppsala University in 1999 . Danius was invited as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2001/02 .

Danius was a professor of aesthetics at the Södertörn University of Applied Sciences (Södertörns Högskola) and lectured in literature at Uppsala University. She has published on Marcel Proust , Gustave Flaubert and James Joyce .

Sara Danius died in October 2019 at the age of 57 after a long illness of complications from breast cancer .

Member of the Swedish Academy

Since 2010 Danius has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Learning, History and Antiquities . In March 2013 it was decided to appoint Danius as a member of the Swedish Academy as of December 20, 2013 as the successor to the late Knut Ahnlund . Since 2014 she has been a member of the eighteen-member selection committee for the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature , and from June 2015 she chaired it.

On April 12, 2018, she resigned from this post and at the same time declared, like Katarina Frostenson , that she was resting her work at the academy. Formally, however, she was still a member, since the statutes of the Swedish Academy at that time did not provide for an exit and Danius had not applied for one. On February 26, 2019, the Academy announced that it had agreed with Danius to leave the Academy.

Fonts (selection)

  • Proust - Benjamin: om photographer. Moderna Museet. Axl Books, Stockholm 2011.
  • with Hanns Zischler : Nose for news: mixed messages from James Joyce. Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 2008.
  • The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala 2006, ISBN 91-554-6599-4 .
  • with Patrik Johansson; William Jewson: Voices: contemporary ceramic art from Sweden. Carlsson, Stockholm 2006.
  • Marey, Bergson, and the crisis of human vision. In: The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2002, ISBN 0-8014-3899-3 .
  • Proust's motor. Bonnier Essä, Uddevalla 2000.
  • with Birgit Munkhammar, Anders Olsson, Lars Gustafsson : Försök om Litteratur. Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stockholm 1998.
  • Det politiska omedvetna: advising som social symbol handling by Fredric Jameson. 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius is dead. In: dn.se. DN.SE, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ a b Prospects for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In: NZZ . March 9, 2012, p. 25.
  3. ^ Sara Danius , profile at the Södertörns Högskola
  4. ↑ Danius, Sara . In: Hans Uddling, Katrin Paabo (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1993 . 41. Vol. PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1992, ISBN 91-1914072-X , p. 235 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  5. ↑ Sara Danius död efter lång tids sjukdom , svt.se, October 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Former Academy Chairperson Danius dies , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed on October 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ny ledamot i Svenska academies. (No longer available online.) March 7, 2013, archived from the original on March 11, 2013 ; Retrieved June 18, 2013 (Swedish). 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.svenskaakademien.se
  8. ↑ Roman Bucheli: The Nobel Prize for Literature is in free fall. NZZ, April 12, 2018, accessed on the same day.
  9. ↑ Sara Danius lämnar Svenska academies , press release of the Swedish Academy, accessed on 26 February 2019 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Danius, Sara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danius, Sara Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Taby
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2019
Place of death Stockholm