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The Swedish Academy is an active institution based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was established on March 20, 1786. The organization maintains a membership of 18 individuals, corresponding to its 18 seats. Its official website is svenskaakademien.se.
The Academy works toward a common, rich, and living language that everyone has the opportunity to use and develop. It is referenced by 799 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Formation
- 20 March 1786 ; 240 years ago ( 20 March 1786 )
- Type
- Royal academy
- Headquarters
- Stock Exchange Building , Stockholm
- Members
- 18 members
- Permanent secretary
- Mats Malm
- Website
- svenskaakademien.se
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Other
- Founded
- 1786
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.486582.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 2097 7108
Official website
Svenska Akademien
Akademien arbetar för ett gemensamt, rikt och levande språk som alla ska ha möjlighet att bruka och utveckla.
svenskaakademien.se →Link to the official site · 6,765 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national academy
- Country
- Sweden
- Founded by
- Gustav III of Sweden
- Headquarters
- Stockholm Stock Exchange Building
- Official website
- www.svenskaakademien.se
- Image
- Svenska-Akademien.jpg
- Motto
- Snille och smak
Show 9 more facts
- inception
- 1786-03-20
- Commons category
- Swedish Academy
- topic's main category
- Category:Swedish Academy
- different from
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- native label
- Svenska Akademien
- number of seats
- 18
- language used
- Swedish
- house publication
- Q1935308
- member count
- 18
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Encyclopedic overview
The Swedish Academy (Swedish: Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swedish Academy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.