Anders Olsson (writer) explained
| Anders Olsson |
| Birth Date: | 19 June 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation: | literary critic |
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| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Module: | | Embed: | yes | | Office: | Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 4) | | Termstart: | 20 December 2008 | | Predecessor: | Lars Forssell | | | Office2: | Permanent Secretary
of the Swedish Academy
(pro temporare) | | Termstart2: | April 2018 | | Termend2: | June 2019 | | Predecessor2: | Sara Danius | | Successor2: | Mats Malm |
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Anders Olsson (born 19 June 1949) is a Swedish writer, professor of literature at Stockholm University, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Olsson has written some 15 books on poetry and the history of literature; together with his friend and ally Horace Engdahl he was a key introducer of the work of Jacques Derrida and other post-structuralist thinkers into Swedish literary research and criticism. His doctoral dissertation on Swedish poet and essayist Gunnar Ekelöf was published in 1983 and met with mostly favourable reviews.[1] He was appointed professor of literature at Stockholm University in 2004 and his research interests include the development of modern literature.[2]
Olsson was member of the Kris editorial staff.[3] In 1984 he published his first collection of poems, Dagar, aska.
In February 2008, Olson was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, by secret ballot to succeed poet and writer Lars Forssell who died in 2007,[4] and he formally took his seat in the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2008.
From 13 April 2018 he served as the pro tempore permanent secretary of the Academy, following a controversy when Sara Danius was forced to resign.[5] Anders Olsson then served as the permanent secretary of the Academy between 1 June 2018 and 1 June 2019.[6] He is currently the chairman of the Academy's Nobel Committee for Literature.[7]
Bibliography
- Mälden mellan stenarna (1981)
- Ekelöfs nej (1983) (doctoral dissertation)
- Intertextualitet (1984)
- Dagar, aska (1984)
- De antända polerna (1986)
- Den okända texten : en essä om tolkningsteori från kyrkofäderna till Derrida (1987)
- Bellerofontes resa (1988)
- Solstämma (1991)
- Den Andra Födan (1992)
- Det vita (1993)
- Ekelunds hunger (1995)
- Att skriva dagen : Gunnar Björlings poetiska värld (1995)
- Gunnar Ekelöf (1997)
- Ett mått av lycka (1998)
- Läsningar av intet (2000)
- Skillnadens konst : sex kapitel om moderna fragment (2006)
- Lars Forssell : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (2008)
- Men så oändligt lätt att svara dig (2010)
- Ordens asyl : inledning till den moderna exillitteraturen (2011)
- Vad är en suck? : en essä om Erik Johan Stagnelius (2013)
- Languages of Exile – Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature (2013)
- Tankar om läsning (2015)
Notes and References
- http://www.svenskaakademien.se/Templates/News1.aspx?PageID=0915a1a3-fdb6-4110-b7d3-6287383bb14c Anders Olsson : Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien
- Web site: Stol nr 4 – Anders Olsson. Svenska Akademien. sv. 28 August 2018.
- Web site: Stol nr 4 - Anders Olsson | Svenska Akademien.
- http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=745419 Anders Olsson ny ledamot i Svenska akademien
- News: Sara Danius ersättare: "Samtal med kungen ledde fram till detta". Expressen. 14 April 2018. sv.
- https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-academy/chair-no-4-anders-olsson Anders Olsson
- https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-nobel-prize-in-literature/How-are-the-nobel-prize-laureates-in-literature-decided The Nobel Prize in Literature: How are The Nobel Prize laureates in literature decided
