About Sara Danius
Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish literary critic, philosopher, and scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn 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. This was the second time a songwriter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first since Rabindranath Tagore won it in 1913.
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