/Jag har förstås fortsatt att skildra akademiankdammen på engelska - nedan det
senaste. Det tycks finnas ett enormt intresse i utlandet för när de så
ordentliga svenskarna har lekstuga... Min ursprungliga artikel i File770 har
fått en lång kommentrarstråd - se
http://file770.com/?p=41692&cpage=1#comment-793108 Och så kom jag på en tredje ;
helt möjlig akademikandidat - se sist. --AE/
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The crisis in the Swedish Academy took a dramatic turn after their Thursday
meeting: both the Permanent Secretary Sara Danius and the criticsized poet
Katarina Frostenson leaves, in what is described as "a compromise". New
Temporary Permanent (!) Secretary is Anders Olsson. On Wednesday the Court
issued a press release saying that the King had the power to modify the
Academy's statutes. Later a Court spokesperson said that such work was "in
progress".
And the statues must be changed, because presenty The Eighteen - as the
Academy is known as - now has seven empty chairs, and the eleven remaining
isn't enough to constitute quorum to elect new members. Twelve is the minimum.
Virtually all the newspapers and people in the cultural sphere support Sara
Danius, seen as someone who tried to fix things but finally couldn't overcome
old, dusty resistance. Newspaper Expressen e g writes that she had "decades of
dirty laundry thrown on her lap", laundry that three previous Permanent
Secretaries should have taken care of. The Bad Guy in the opinion of many is
Horace Engdahl (also a previous PermSec) whose piece in Expressen on Tuesday
wasn't well received ( Google Translate
https://translate.google.se/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=https://www.expressen.se/kultur/ide/jag-forfaras-over-raheten-i-akademiens-maktkamp/&prev=search
).
Now, up to seven (!) Academy members need to be replaced (provided the
statutes change to allow it), and here's something interesting: there are in my
opinion credible cadidates with ties to science fiction and sf fandom!
* Erik Andersson, first of all, a leading fan in the 1980's, with his
excellent fanzine Der Leuchtturm, and also as editor (together with Yours
Truly) of the fandom pages ion Jules Verne Magasinet. He has since done major,
well recieved translation work with Tolkien and James Joyce and has written
about ten books of his own. He has a nice sense of humour too.
* Steve Sem-Sandberg, who had much with sf to do in the 1970's - his first
three novels were skiffy and he often turned up in the SFSF clubhouse. He has
since turned to mainstream, written about e g the Holocaust, won the main
literary August award, he often reviews books on the cultural pages and so on.
* Inger Edelfeldt, began as illustrator (e g Tolkien book covers) but has
since written a long stream of well-received books (debut with Duktig Pojke
already in 1977), some with fantasy contents, and has won a lot of awards. She
was also often seen in the SFSF clubhouse in the 1970's.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these turns up on a chair in the Old Stock
Exchange Building, by the Grand Square, in the Old Town where the Academy
resides.
But first the Swedish Academy must undergo major repair and renovation.
--Ahrvid
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