The two new members who will be part of the Swedish Academy are Ingrid Carlberg, author and journalist, and Steve Sem-Sandberg, author, critic and translator.
This is announced by the Academy in a press release.
Carlberg replaces Göran Malmqvist on chair five and Steve Sem-Sandberg replaces Kristina Lugn on chair 14.
- Ingrid Carlberg has non-fiction, of which there has not been much in the Academy and that kind of breadth also outside the humanities, says the Academy's permanent secretary Mats Malm to Kulturnyheterna.
- Steve Sem-Sandberg is quite a Central European author and a brilliant critic.
Both will be important in our continued work, says Mats Malm.
Has worked as a journalist
Ingrid Carlberg has previously worked as a journalist at Dagens Nyheter, as a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Gothenburg and was appointed an honorary doctor at Uppsala University.
Among other things, she has written the books “The Pill.
A story about depression and doctors, researchers and Freud, people and markets ”from 2008.
Other books are the Raoul Wallenberg biography "There is a room here waiting for you ..." which was awarded the August Prize for best Swedish non-fiction book in 2012 and the biography "Nobel", which is about Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize and came out in 2019.
Wrote "The Poor in 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 in Łódź" (2009) for which he received the August Prize for the same year, "The Chosen" (2014), "The Storm" and "The Hunters in Armentières" (2020).