Knut Ahnlund
Knut Ahnlund is a historian of the Scandinavian literature , writer and member of the Swedish Académie, born the May 24th 1923.
Biography
Specialist in the Scandinavian literature in general and the Danish literature in particular, Ahnlund supported a thesis on Henrik Pontoppidan. Later, it publishes dedicated works with Sven Lidman, Gustav Wied and several others. Also Novelist and translator, it passed his doctorate to the Université of Stockholm and teaches, with the title of Professor, the History of the Scandinavian and Scandinavian Letters to the Université of Aarhus. In 1983, it is elected member of the Swedish Académie, thus succeeding Karl Ragnar Gierow.
Following a conflict the opponent with the permanent secretary, Sture Allén and with its successor: Horace Engdahl, Ahnlund took part in the activities of the Académie only in a very restricted way since 1996. The October 11th 2005, only a few days before the annual advertisement of new the Nobel Prize, Ahnlund confirms, in an article written for the national daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet , its intention supposed to leave its functions of academician in gesture of protest vis-a-vis the choice of Elfriede Jelinek the previous year, of which it qualifies the work of “anarchistic tumble” and “pornography”, “plated on a bottom of obsessional hatred and larmoyant self-centredness. ” The Swedish Academy functioning on the model of the French Academy, the rule wants that a member who was elected it is with life. Ahnlund cannot thus be deposed of its title or discharge some officially, but it does not take part any more in any debate, nor with any activity of the Académie. Its armchair is perpetually empty there and will be able to accommodate a substitute or one replacing only after its death.
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