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The two new members to join the Swedish Academy are Ingrid Carlberg, author and journalist, and Steve Sem-Sandberg, author, critic and translator. This was announced by the Academy in a press release.
Carlberg replaces Göran Malmqvist in chair five and Steve Sem-Sandberg replaces Kristina Lugn in chair 14.
– Ingrid Carlberg has non-fiction, of which there has not been much in the Academy and that kind of breadth also outside of the humanities, says the permanent secretary of the Academy, Mats Malm, to Kulturnyheterna.
– Steve Sem-Sandberg is a fairly Central European author and brilliant critic. Both will be important in our ongoing work, says Mats Malm.
He has worked as a journalist
Ingrid Carlberg previously worked as a journalist at Dagens Nyheter, as a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Gothenburg, and was appointed an honorary doctorate at Uppsala University.
Among other things, he has written the books “The pill. A Story about Depression and Doctors, Researchers and Freud, People and Markets ”2008.
Other books include the Raoul Wallenberg biography “There is a room here waiting for you …”, which received the August prize for the best Swedish non-fiction book in 2012 and the biography “Nobel”, which is about Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. and was published in 2019.
He wrote “The poor of Łódź”
Steve Sem-Sandberg was long associated with Svenska Dagbladet and is now a critic of Dagens Nyheter.
As a translator, he has worked with works by John Berger, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Jon Fosse. Among his own books are “The Poor of Łódź” (2009) for which he received the award in August of the same year, “The chosen ones” (2014), “The storm” and “The hunters in Armentières” (2020).
