Mats Ulrik Malm | |
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| Born | 10 May 1964 |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation(s) | translator, literary historian, editor |
| Spouse | Gunilla Hermansson |
| Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 11) | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Klas Östergren |
| Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy | |
| Assumed office June 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Anders Olsson |
Mats Ulrik Malm (born 10 May 1964) is a Swedish literary writer and translator. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, on 26 April 2019 he was elected the new Permanent Secretary and Speaker of the Swedish Academy.[1]
Mats Malm is a university professor of literary science at the University of Gothenburg. He has a PhD in Gothicism. As a translator, he has published Icelandic Sagas. He is working on digitizing Swedish literature as director of the Swedish Literature Bank. Since 2012, Malm has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected member of the Swedish Academy, where he succeeded Klas Östergren in Chair No. 11.[2]
Works
[edit]- Voluptuous Language and Poetic Ambivalence. The Example of Swedish Baroque, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main etc. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-59299-1.
- Minervas äpple: om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism (1996)[3]
- Textens auktoritet: de första svenska romanernas villkor (2001)[4]
- Det liderliga språket: poetisk ambivalens i svensk "barock" (2004)[5]
- Poesins röster: avlyssningar av äldre litteratur (2011)[6]
- The Soul of Poetry Redefined: Vacillations of Mimesis from Aristotle to Romanticism (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012)[7]
Translations
[edit]- Gautreks saga (Samspråk, 1990)[8]
- Gísla saga (Gísla saga Súrssonar) (Fabel, 1993)[9]
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist: Om François Rabelais' liv och skrifter (De vita et scriptis Francisci Rabelæsi) (Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, University of Gothenburg, 1993)[10]
- Snorri Sturluson: Snorres Edda (Prose Edda) (co-translated with Karl G. Johansson) (Fabel, 1997)[11]
- Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu) (Saga forlag Reykjavik, 2014)[12]
- Hrafnkels saga (Hrafnkels saga Freygoða) (Saga förlag Reykjavik, 2014)[12]
Awards
[edit]- Schückska Award of Swedish Academy 2010
References
[edit]- ^ "The Swedish Academy appoints a new Permanent Secretary". 26 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien, Swedish Academy, October 19, 2018.
- ^ Minervas äpple: om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism. ISBN 91-7139-290-4. SELIBR 7607584.
- ^ Textens auktoritet: de första svenska romanernas villkor. ISBN 91-7139-508-3. SELIBR 8370690.
- ^ Det liderliga språket: poetisk ambivalens i svensk "barock". ISBN 9171396667. SELIBR 9511890.
- ^ Poesins röster: avlyssningar av äldre litteratur. ISBN 9789171398796. SELIBR 12755940.
- ^ The Soul of Poetry Redefined: Vacillations of Mimesis from Aristotle to Romanticism. ISBN 9788763537421. SELIBR 12639314.
- ^ Götriks saga: en fornaldarsaga. ISBN 91-86020-94-3. SELIBR 7754251.
- ^ Gisle Surssons saga. ISBN 91-7842-146-2. SELIBR 7668206.
- ^ Om François Rabelais' liv och skrifter. ISBN 91-86270-36-2. SELIBR 7756434.
- ^ Snorres Edda. ISBN 91-7842-217-5. SELIBR 7668243.
- ^ a b Islänningasagorna: samtliga släktsagor och fyrtionio tåtar. ISBN 978-9935-9199-2-2. SELIBR 16543014.
External links
[edit]- Chair no. 11 - Mats Malm. Literary historian, Elected: 2018., biographical notes on Mats Malm at Svenska Akademien website
- Staff profile as professor, Universität Göteborg
- List of computer science publications by Mats Malm, dblp.org
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