Posted by Steven on 26/10/2007, 20:38:56, in reply to "Re: Doris Lessing" I was curious to see who actually decides which author receives the Nobel Prize. Here they are - the members of the Swedish Academy, a body devoted to the preservation of the Swedish language. I looked up their actual professions and added that information to the list. Sten Rudholm, b. 1918 - lawyer
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: I don't attach too much importance to Nobel, at least
: I try not to.
Bo Ralph, b. 1945 - prof. of languages
Sture Allén, b. 1928 - prof. of computational linguistics
Lars Forssell, b. 1928 - poet, dramatist, songwriter
deceased on the 26th of July 2007
Göran Malmqvist, b. 1924 - literary historian
Birgitta Trotzig, b. 1929 - novelist
Knut Ahnlund, b. 1923 - literary historian
inactive in protest to the award to Elfriede Jelinek
Jesper Svenbro b. 1944 - poet
Torgny Lindgren, b. 1938 - poet
Peter Englund, b. 1957 - historian
Ulf Linde, b. 1929 - art critic
Per Wästberg, b. 1933 - novelist and newspaper editor
Gunnel Vallquist, b. 1918 - translator
Kristina Lugn, b. 1948 - poet and dramatist
Kerstin Ekman, b. 1933 - writer of detective stories
inactive due to Salman Rushdie controversy
Kjell Espmark, b. 1930 - literary historian
Horace Engdahl, b. 1948 - literary historian and critic
Katarina Frostenson, b. 1953 - poet
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