Anders Olsson (born 19 June 1949) is a Swedish writer, professor of literature at Stockholm University, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy.
Olsson has written some 15 books on poetry and the history of literature; together with his friend and ally Horace Engdahl he was a key introducer of the work of Jacques Derrida and other post-structuralist thinkers into Swedish literary research and criticism. His doctoral dissertation on Swedish poet and essayist Gunnar Ekelöf was published in 1983 and met with mostly favourable reviews.[1] He was appointed professor of literature at Stockholm University in 2004 and his research interests include the development of modern literature.[2]
Olsson was member of the Kris editorial staff.[3] In 1984 he published his first collection of poems, Dagar, aska.
In February 2008, Olson was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, by secret ballot to succeed poet and writer Lars Forssell who died in 2007,[4] and he formally took his seat in the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2008.
From 13 April 2018 he served as the pro tempore permanent secretary of the Academy, following a controversy when Sara Danius was forced to resign.[5] Anders Olsson then served as the permanent secretary of the Academy between 1 June 2018 and 1 June 2019.[6] He is currently the chairman of the Academy's Nobel Committee for Literature.[7]
Bibliography
Mälden mellan stenarna (1981)
Ekelöfs nej (1983) (doctoral dissertation)
Intertextualitet (1984)
Dagar, aska (1984)
De antända polerna (1986)
Den okända texten : en essä om tolkningsteori från kyrkofäderna till Derrida (1987)
Bellerofontes resa (1988)
Solstämma (1991)
Den Andra Födan (1992)
Det vita (1993)
Ekelunds hunger (1995)
Att skriva dagen : Gunnar Björlings poetiska värld (1995)
Gunnar Ekelöf (1997)
Ett mått av lycka (1998)
Läsningar av intet (2000)
Skillnadens konst : sex kapitel om moderna fragment (2006)
Lars Forssell : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (2008)
Men så oändligt lätt att svara dig (2010)
Ordens asyl : inledning till den moderna exillitteraturen (2011)
Vad är en suck? : en essä om Erik Johan Stagnelius (2013)
Languages of Exile – Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature (2013)
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