Sara Danius
Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 - 12 October 2019) was a Swedish scholar of literature, aesthetics and former member of the Nobel prize in literature committee. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Sodertorn 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. She was born in Taby.
Danius died on 12 October 2019, aged 57, after having suffered from breast cancer for several years.
Bibliography
Forsok om litteratur, Stockholm: Bonnier, 1998. .
Prousts motor, Stockholm: Bonnier, 2000. .
The senses of modernism: technology, perception, and aesthetics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. .
The prose of the world: Flaubert and the art of making things visible, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006.
Voices: contemporary ceramic art from Sweden, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2006. .
Proust-Benjamin: om fotografin, 2011. .
Nasa for nyheter: essa om James Joyce, 2013. .
Den bla tvalen: Romanen och konsten att gora saker och ting synliga, 2013. .
Husmoderns dod och andra texter, Stockholm: Bonnier, 2014. .
Om Bob Dylan, 2018. .
References
Other websites
Sara Danius, bei Hanser-Verlag
1962 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Literary critics
Swedish academics
Swedish critics