Sara Danius

Sara Danius
Danius in October 2016
Born Sara Maria Danius
(1962-04-05) 5 April 1962
Täby, Sweden
Alma mater Uppsala University
Duke University
University of Nottingham
University of Stockholm
Institutions Swedish Academy
Södertörn University
Uppsala University

Sara Maria Danius (born 5 April 1962 in Täby[1]) is a Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University[2] and Docent of Literature at Uppsala University.[3]

Danius is the daughter of the author Anna Wahlgren (b. 1942) and Lars Danius (1907-1996).[1] She is the oldest of eight siblings and half-siblings.[4]

Danius graduated from University of Stockholm in 1986. She received her Master of Arts in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham in 1989. In 1997 she became a Ph.D. at Duke University, and in 1999 she received a Ph.D. degree at Uppsala University.[5] She has published on the relationship between literature and society, and written about Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert and James Joyce.

Danius has worked as a literary critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter since 1986.[1] She is an executive member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters since 2010.

In March 2013, Danius was elected to be a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Knut Ahnlund on chair 7. Danius was formally installed in the Academy at a ceremony on 20 December 2013.[2][3] She took over the post as permanent secretary of the Academy from Peter Englund on 1 June 2015.[6][7] She was asked to resign from her position and left the Academy on 12 April 2018 against the background of critique over the Academy's handling of the Jean-Claude Arnault scandal.[8][9] Two former permanent secretaries, Sture Allén and Horace Engdahl, called Danius a weak leader in her handling of the affair.[10]

Bibliography

  • Försök om litteratur (1998)
  • Prousts motor (2000)
  • The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8014-3899-3
  • The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006. ISBN 91-554-6599-4
  • Voices: contemporary ceramic art from Sweden, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2006. ISBN 91-7203-778-4
  • Proust-Benjamin : om fotografin, 2011. ISBN 978-91-86883-05-8
  • Näsa för nyheter : essä om James Joyce, 2013. ISBN 978-91-87219-02-3
  • Den blå tvålen: Romanen och konsten att göra saker och ting synliga, 2013. ISBN 978-91-0-012049-8
  • Knut Ahnlund, 2014
  • Husmoderns död och andra texter, 2014.
  • Om Bob Dylan, 2018. ISBN 9789100177812

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sara Danius, Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok 1993, p. 235
  2. 1 2 Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien Archived 2013-03-11 at the Wayback Machine., press release from the Swedish Academy, 7 March 2013 (in Swedish)
  3. 1 2 DN-medarbetare tar plats i Svenska akademien, Dagens Nyheter 7 March 2013 (in Swedish)
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/17/the-ugly-scandal-that-cancelled-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
  5. ↑ Sara Danius, profile at Södertörn University (in Swedish)
  6. ↑ Sara Danius ersätter Peter Englund, Dagens Nyheter 20 December 2014 (in Swedish)
  7. ↑ "Chair no. 7 - Sara Danius". The Swedish Academy. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Sara Danius forlater Svenska Akademien". Aftenposten (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  9. ↑ Jones, Evelyn (12 April 2018). "Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy leaves her position". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Christina Anderson (12 April 2018). "In Nobel Scandal, a Man Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct. A Woman Takes the Fall". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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Preceded by
Knut Ahnlund		 Swedish Academy,
Seat No.7
2013–		 Succeeded by
incumbent
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