Anders Olsson (writer)

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]

Olsson was member of the Kris editorial staff.[2]

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,[3] and he formally took his seat in the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2008.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ Anders Olsson : Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien, press release of 22 February 2008.
  2. ↑ http://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/de-aderton/stol-nr-4-anders-olsson
  3. ↑ Anders Olsson ny ledamot i Svenska akademien Archived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Dagens Nyheter, 22 February 2008.
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Lars Forssell		 Swedish Academy,
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