Horace Engdahl
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Horace Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary critic and historian and journalist.
Engdahl was born in Karlskrona, Sweden. He earned his his B.A. in 1970 at Stockholm University, and his PhD there in 1987, with a study on Swedish romanticism. He is currently adjunct professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Aarhus in Denmark).
He speaks Swedish, English, German, French and Russian fluently.
In 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, taking a chair vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt; in 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, a position that involves him prominently in the public side of the Nobel Prize in literature, and apparently led to his pop-culture role as a character in a newspaper cartoon.
He is married to Ebba Witt-Brattström, former member of the feminist organisation Grupp 8 and professor of literature at the University of Södertörn. They have three sons: Caspar, Marcel and Fabius.de:Horace Engdahl sv:Horace Engdahl