Anders Olsson (writer)

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]

Olsson was member of the Kris editorial staff.^[2]

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.,^[3] and he formally took his seat in the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2008.

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)
• Tankar om läsning (2015)

Notes

1. Anders Olsson : Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien, press release of 22 February 2008.
2. http://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/de-aderton/stol-nr-4-anders-olsson
3. Anders Olsson ny ledamot i Svenska akademien, Dagens Nyheter, 22 February 2008.