Swedish Academy Nordic Prize

The Nordic Prize (Swedish: nordiska pris) is a literary award presented annually by the Swedish Academy. The recipient is someone from the Nordic countries who has done significant work in any of the Academy's areas of operations or interests.^[1] The inaugural award was in 1986 and was founded with a donation from Karen and Karl Ragnar Gierows.^[1] The prize amount consists of kr 400,000.^[1] The prize has been referred to as the "little Nobel" because it is awarded by the same Academy that gives the Nobel Prize.^[2]

Recipients

Ernst Håkon Jahr receiving the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize (2011)

Sofi Oksanen, the first Finnish woman to win the prize (2013)

Previous winners.^[3]

• 1986 Villy Sørensen
• 1987 William Heinesen
• 1988 Nils Erik Enkvist
• 1989 Rolf Jacobsen
• 1990 Henrik Nordbrandt
• 1991 Tomas Tranströmer
• 1992 Thor Vilhjálmsson
• 1993 Paavo Haavikko
• 1994 Inger Christensen
• 1995 Lars Ahlin
• 1996 Arne Næss
• 1997 Bo Carpelan
• 1998 Lars Forssell
• 1999 Klaus Rifbjerg
• 2000 Lars Huldén
• 2001 Willy Kyrklund
• 2002 Torben Brostrøm
• 2003 Lars Norén
• 2004 Guðbergur Bergsson
• 2005 Göran Sonnevi^[4][5]
• 2006 Pia Tafdrup^[6][7]
• 2007 Jon Fosse^[8][9]
• 2008 Sven-Eric Liedman^[10][11]
• 2009 Kjell Askildsen^[12][13]
• 2010 Per Olov Enquist
• 2011 Ernst Håkon Jahr^[14][15]
• 2012 Einar Már Guðmundsson^[16]
• 2013 Sofi Oksanen^[17]
• 2014 Lars Gustafsson
• 2015 Thomas Bredsdorff^[18]

References

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5. "Lilla Nobelpriset till Göran Sonnevi". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). 18 March 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
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14. "Jahr får Akademiens nordiska pris". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 15 March 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
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16. "Svenska Akademien prisar Einar Már Guðmundsson". Bokmassan, Bok & Bibliotek (in Swedish). 19 March 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
17. Staff writer (15 March 2013). "Now Swedish Academy's turn to honour author Oksanen". YLE Uutiset. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
18. "Den danske litteraturvetaren Thomas Bredsdorff får Svenska Akademiens nordiska pris för 2015". Upsala Nya Tidning. 20 March 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.