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6 unusual facts about Swedish Academy


August Hjalmar Edgren

In 1901, he returned to Sweden to serve on the founding board of the Nobel Prize in Literature at the Swedish Academy.

Brian Manning Delaney

In April 2009, the Swedish Academy awarded him a special honor for his work on the translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit.

Chokladboll

I think it's more clear to link Swedish Academy to Swedish Academy.

Nobel Committee

The Nobel Committees for four of the prizes, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, are working bodies within their prize awarding institutions, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and the Swedish Academy.

Svenska Serieakademien

The academy is based on the structure of the Swedish Academy and has 18 members, just like its prototype, but is aimed at the art of comics.

You're Summer

The most intriguing line of this song is "Oh your breasts are like swallows in nesting", written by the well-known poet Lars Forssell, member of the Swedish Academy.


Carina Burman

Together with her husband, Professor Lars Burman, she has published critical editions on behalf of the Swedish Academy of the works of Johan Henric Kellgren (1995), Fredrika Bremer's "Livet i gamla världen. Palestina" (1995) and the poetic works of Erik Gustaf Geijer (1999).

The Land of Green Plums

During the presentation ceremony, Anders Olsson, member of the Swedish Academy, referred to The Land of Green Plums as "a masterful account of the flight of a group of youths from the terror regime".


see also

Görtz

Maria Johanna Görtz (1783–1853), Swedish artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Lindegren

Erik Lindegren (1910-1968), Swedish author, poet and member of the Swedish Academy

Nils Rosén

Nils von Rosenstein, son of the previous, first secretary of the Swedish Academy

Padma Kant Shukla

He is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), a Foreign Member of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an Associate Fellow/Member of TWAS-the World Academy for the Advancement of Sciences in the Developing World (Trieste, Italy).

Piranha Club

In 1989, the Swedish Academy of Comic Art awarded Bud Grace with the Adamson Statuette.

Strähle construction

Stråhle published his construction as a "new invention, to determine the Temperament in tuning, for the pitches of the clavichord and similar instruments" in an article that appeared in the fourth volume of the proceedings of the newly formed Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which included articles by prominent scholars and Academy members Polhem, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Fredrik Mennander, Augustin Ehrensvärd, and Samuel Klingenstierna.