Danius, Sara

LC control no.	n 2001045266
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Danius, Sara *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1962-04-05
Death date	2019-10-12
Place of birth	Täby (Sweden)
Place of death	Stockholm (Sweden)
Field of activity	Literature--History and criticism Aesthetics
Affiliation	Svenska akademien Stockholms universitet Duke University Södertörns högskola
Profession or occupation	Critics Literature teachers Aestheticians
Found in	Danius, Sara. The senses of modernism, 2002: CIP t.p. (Sara Danius) Madame Bovary, 2013: page 24 ([Introduction by] Sara Danius) Sydney morning herald WWW site, viewed Oct. 31, 2019 (in obituary dated Oct. 18, 2019: Sara Danius, who was the first woman to lead the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on October 12 in Stockholm. Ms Danius, a literary scholar, professor and writer, was the permanent secretary of the academy from 2015 to 2018. Sara Danius was born on April 5, 1962, in Taby, north of Stockholm. She studied at Stockholm University and, after graduating in 1986, established herself as a literary critic. After further studies in France, England and the US, where she received her doctorate in literature from Duke University in 1997, she was appointed professor of aesthetics at Sodertorn University in Stockholm. In 2013 she was named professor of literature at Stockholm University. She wrote extensively about modernist aesthetics and also about Proust, Flaubert and Joyce) LC database, Oct. 31, 2019 (access point: Danius, Sara; usage: Sara Danius; associated resources in English and Swedish)
Associated language	eng swe