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Sara Danius

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Also known as Sara Maria Danius

Swedish academic

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  • Om Bob Dylan
  • Försök om Litteratur
  • Husmoderns död och andra texter
  • Den blå tvålen
  • Prose of the World

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Type
Person
Active from
1962-04-05
Active to
2019-10-12

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Key facts

Born
Sara Maria Danius , ( 1962-04-05 ) 5 April 1962, Täby , Sweden
Died
12 October 2019 (2019-10-12) (aged 57), Stockholm , Sweden
Spouse
Stefan Jonsson ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ⁠ – ⁠ 2010 ) ​
Alma mater
Uppsala University , Duke University , University of Nottingham , Stockholm University
Thesis
The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception and Modernist Aesthetics (1997)
Doctoral advisor
Fredric Jameson
Institutions
Swedish Academy , Södertörn University , Uppsala University , Stockholm University
Preceded by
Knut Ahnlund
Succeeded by
Åsa Wikforss

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Encyclopedic overview

Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.

Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. She 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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