Horace Engdahl
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl (born 30 December 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
Controversy
In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is "too isolated, too insular" to challenge Europe as "the center of the literary world"[4] and that "they don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature ...That ignorance is restraining." At the time of the interview, no American author had received a Nobel Prize in Literature since 1993.[5] His comments generated controversy across the Atlantic, with Harold Augenbraum, head of the U.S. National Book Foundation offering to send him a reading list.[4]
In April 2018, the New York Times reported that Engdahl had railed against former Academy members who left following allegations of sexual abuse by Jean-Claude Arnault.[6]
Bibliography
- Om det utopiska tänkesättet : föreläsning i Stockholm (1982)
- Swedish ballet and dance : a contemporary view (1984)
賀拉斯‧奧斯卡‧阿克塞爾‧恩達爾（Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl，1948年12月30日出生）是瑞典文學史學家和評論家，自1997年起擔任瑞典文學院院士。他曾於1999年至2009年6月擔任瑞典文學院常任秘書，之後由瑞典作家兼歷史學家彼得·恩格倫（Peter Englund）接任。
爭議
2008年10月，恩達爾在接受美聯社採訪時表示，美國“過於孤立，過於封閉”，無法挑戰歐洲作為“文學世界中心”的地位[4]，並且“他們翻譯的不夠多，也沒有真正參與文學的大型對話……這種無知正在阻礙發展。” 採訪時，自1993年以來還沒有一位美國作家獲得諾貝爾文學獎。 [5] 他的言論在大西洋彼岸引發爭議，美國國家圖書基金會負責人哈羅德·奧根布勞姆（Harold Augenbraum）甚至主動提出要給他寄一份閱讀書單[4]。
2018 年 4 月，《紐約時報》報道稱，恩達爾曾對因讓-克洛德·阿爾諾 (Jean-Claude Arnault) 指控性虐待而離開的前學院成員提出批評。 [6]
參考書目
烏托邦主題：在斯德哥爾摩的快樂 (1982)
瑞典芭蕾舞與舞蹈：當代視野（1984）
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