Horace Engdahl

Horace Engdahl is a professor emeritus and historian of the Scandinavian literature born the December 30th 1948 with Karlskrona in the Swedish province of the Blekinge. Also critical, translator and writer, he is also member of the Swedish Académie of which he is, since 1999, the permanent secretary.

Biography

After having continued brilliant literary studies with the University of Stockholm, it supports a thesis of doctorate there on the Swedish Romantisme but only in 1987, because it exerted face and in parallel of the activities of literary criticism, translator and of editor association of newspaper. At that time, it had become one of largest the scholars and European specialists in the Swedish literary tradition. It currently occupies the post of professor associated in Scandinavian literature with the Université of Aarhus to the Denmark. He speaks the Swedish, the English, the German , the French and the Russian very usually.

Horace Engdahl makes profitable its perfect knowledge languages to translate into Swedish works which seem important to him and which he wants to make discover with his compatriots. He is in particular the translator of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida.

In 1997, it is elected member of the Swedish Académie, thus succeeding Johannes Edfelt. In 1999, it replaces Sture Allén at the post of permanent secretary of the Académie. It is him which is charged to announce annually with the press, fine October, the name of the new prize winner of the Nobel Prize.

He is married in Ebba Witt-Brattström (born in 1953), eminent professor in comparative literature with the University of Södertörn in the periphery of Stockholm. It is also active a militant feminist. They had three children.

Works

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