Knut Emil Ahnlund (24 May 1923 – 28 November 2012) was a
Swedish
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literary historian, writer, and member of the
Swedish Academy
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.
Ahnlund, who was born in
Stockholm
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, was an expert on 19th and 20th century Nordic, especially Danish, literature. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on
Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan (24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short ...
, and later wrote on
Gustav Wied
Gustav Johannes Wied (6 March 1858 – 24 October 1914) was a Danish writer. He was generally known as a satire, satirical critic of society in his time and he deliberately used his writing talents to expose the establishment, bourgeoisie an ...
and
Sven Lidman, among others. He was also a novelist and published translations of various writers such as
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...
. He received his doctorate from
Stockholm University
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, and was a professor of Nordic Literary History at the
University of Aarhus
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