Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic. He has been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1999. December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Swedish Academy or Svenska Akademien, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. ...

Engdahl was born in Karlskrona, Sweden. He earned his his B.A. in 1970 at Stockholm University, and began his doctoral studies there; he completed his Ph.D. only in 1987, with a study on Swedish romanticism, but had meanwhile been active as a literary critic, translator and journal editor, and was one of the introducers of the continental tradition of literary scholarship in Sweden. He is currently adjunct professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He speaks Swedish, English, German, French and Russian fluently. Karlskrona is a city in south-eastern Sweden. ... Stockholm University The Arrhenius Laboratory at the main campus of Stockholm University at Frescati Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... University of Aarhus The University of Aarhus is a university based in Ã…rhus, Denmark. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

In 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to the seat vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt; in 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i.e. its executive member and spokesperson. As such, he has the annual task of announcing the recipient of the Nobel prize in literature to the press. The Swedish Academy or Svenska Akademien, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Sture Allén (born 31 December 1928) is a retired professor of computational linguistics at Gothenburg University, who was the previous secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes...

He is married to Ebba Witt-Brattström, professor of literature at the Södertörn University College outside Stockholm. Together they have the sons Caspar, Marcel and Fabius. Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953) is one of Swedens leading feminist critics. ... The main building of the institution, Moas Crescent (Moas bÃ¥ge), takes its name from the writer Moa Martinson, who lived in the vicinity. ...   Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ...

External links

• Presentation at the official website of the Swedish Academy