Editing Horace Engdahl (section)

==Biography==
Engdahl was born in [[Karlskrona]], [[Blekinge]], Sweden. He earned his B.A. in 1970 at [[Stockholm University]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Horace_Engdahl_1.aspx |title=Presentation |access-date=2008-12-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219230411/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Horace_Engdahl_1.aspx |archive-date=2008-12-19 }}</ref> he earned his doctoral degree ([[PhD]]) in 1987, with a study on Swedish [[romanticism]], but had meanwhile been active as a literary critic, translator and journal editor, and was one of the introducers of the continental tradition of literary scholarship in Sweden. He is adjunct professor of [[Scandinavian Literature]] at the [[University of Aarhus]] in [[Denmark]]. He speaks [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]] and [[Russian language|Russian]] fluently.

Engdahl was member of the ''[[Kris (magazine)|Kris]]'' editorial staff.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/de-aderton/stol-nr-17-horace-engdahl|title=Stol nr 17 - Horace Engdahl {{!}} Svenska Akademien|website=www.svenskaakademien.se|language=sv|access-date=2018-02-11}}</ref>

On 16 October 1997, Engdahl became a member of the [[Swedish Academy]], elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of [[Johannes Edfelt]]; on 1 June 1999, he succeeded [[Sture Allén]] as the Academy's permanent secretary, i.e. its executive member and spokesperson. As such, he had the annual task of announcing the recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] to the public. On 20 December 2008 it was announced that after ten years Engdahl would step down as the Academy's permanent secretary on 1 June 2009.<ref>{{cite news
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Between 1989 and 2014 he was married to [[Ebba Witt-Brattström]], professor of literature at [[Södertörn University]] outside [[Stockholm]]. They have three sons.