1. Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics.
18 Facts About Sara Danius
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Sara Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary.
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Sara Danius was one of the central figures in the 2018 controversies resulting in the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year and the following restructuring of the academy.
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Sara Danius was the daughter of author Anna Wahlgren and Lars Sara Danius.
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Sara Danius was the oldest of nine full and half siblings.
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Sara Danius went to Ava gymnasium in Taby, where she studied natural science.
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Sara Danius played basketball in Elitserien, the highest league in Sweden, and continued to play on a recreational level throughout her life.
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Sara Danius received her Master of Arts in critical theory at the University of Nottingham in 1989.
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Sara Danius lived in the United States for ten years and, in 1997, received a PhD from Duke University.
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Sara Danius published on the relationship between literature and society and wrote about Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and James Joyce.
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Sara Danius was a literary critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1986.
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Sara Danius was an executive member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters since 2010, and in 2013 became professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
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In March 2013, Sara Danius was elected to the Swedish Academy, succeeding Knut Ahnlund on chair 7.
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Sara Danius was formally installed in the academy at a ceremony on 20 December 2013.
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Sara Danius took over the post as permanent secretary of the academy from Peter Englund on 1 June 2015.
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Sara Danius played a central role in awarding the literature Nobel to Bob Dylan.
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Sara Danius 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 Me Too-related Jean-Claude Arnault scandal.
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Sara Danius died on 12 October 2019, aged 57, after having suffered from breast cancer for several years.