Mats Malm

Mats Ulrik Malm (born 10 May 1964) is a Swedish literary writer and translator. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, on 26 April 2019 he was elected the new Permanent Secretary and Speaker of the Swedish Academy.^[1]

Mats Ulrik Malm
Born	(1964-05-10) 10 May 1964 (age 61) Gothenburg, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation(s)	translator, literary historian, editor
Spouse	Gunilla Hermansson
Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 11)
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2018
Preceded by	Klas Östergren
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy
Incumbent
Assumed office June 2019
Preceded by	Anders Olsson

Mats Malm is a university professor of literary science at the University of Gothenburg. He has a PhD in Gothicism. As a translator, he has published Icelandic Sagas. He is working on digitizing Swedish literature as director of the Swedish Literature Bank. Since 2012, Malm has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected member of the Swedish Academy, where he succeeded Klas Östergren in Chair No. 11.^[2]

Works

• Voluptuous Language and Poetic Ambivalence. The Example of Swedish Baroque, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main etc. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-59299-1.
• Minervas äpple: om diktsyn, tolkning och bildspråk inom nordisk göticism (1996)^[3]
• Textens auktoritet: de första svenska romanernas villkor (2001)^[4]
• Det liderliga språket: poetisk ambivalens i svensk "barock" (2004)^[5]
• Poesins röster: avlyssningar av äldre litteratur (2011)^[6]
• The Soul of Poetry Redefined: Vacillations of Mimesis from Aristotle to Romanticism (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012)^[7]

Translations

• Gautreks saga (Samspråk, 1990)^[8]
• Gísla saga (Gísla saga Súrssonar) (Fabel, 1993)^[9]
• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist: Om François Rabelais' liv och skrifter (De vita et scriptis Francisci Rabelæsi) (Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, University of Gothenburg, 1993)^[10]
• Snorri Sturluson: Snorres Edda (Prose Edda) (co-translated with Karl G. Johansson) (Fabel, 1997)^[11]
• Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu) (Saga forlag Reykjavik, 2014)^[12]
• Hrafnkels saga (Hrafnkels saga Freygoða) (Saga förlag Reykjavik, 2014)^[12]

Awards

• Schückska Award of Swedish Academy 2010