Knut Ahnlund (b. 24 May 1923) is a Swedish literary historian, writer, and member of the Swedish Academy. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (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. ...

Ahnlund is an expert on 19th and 20th century Nordic, especially Danish, literature. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Henrik Pontoppidan, and has later written on Gustav Wied and Sven Lidman, among others. He is also a novelist and has published translations of various writers. He received his doctorate from Stockholm University, and has been professor of Nordic Literary History at the University of Aarhus. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1983. Henrik Pontoppidan (July 24, 1857 – August 21, 1943) was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark. ... The Lidman family grave in Linköping, Sweden. ... Stockholm University Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... University of Aarhus The University of Aarhus is a university based in Århus, Denmark. ...

Due to conflicts with the former permanent secretary of the Academy, Sture Allén, and his successor, Horace Engdahl, Ahnlund has only participated minimally in the work of the Academy since 1996. On 11 October 2005, just a few days before the announcement of the 2005 Nobel laureate for literature, he declared in a piece in Svenska Dagbladet that he would leave the Academy in protest against the choice of recipient of the prize the previous year, Elfriede Jelinek; he characterized Jelinek's work as chaotic and pornographic. As membership of the Academy is for life, Ahnlund cannot formally leave the Academy, but he will not participate in its work and his chair will be left empty until his death. 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. ... Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Front page of the first issue of Svenska Dagbladet (18 December 1884) Svenska Dagbladet or SvD is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ... Elfriede Jelinek talking to anti-government protesters in Vienna, June 2000 Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian feminist playwright and novelist. ...