Key facts
- Born
- Sara Maria Danius , ( 1962-04-05 ) 5 April 1962, Täby , Sweden
- Died
- 12 October 2019 (2019-10-12) (aged 57), Stockholm , Sweden
- Spouse
- Stefan Jonsson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 – 2010 )
- Alma mater
- Uppsala University , Duke University , University of Nottingham , Stockholm University
- Thesis
- The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception and Modernist Aesthetics (1997)
- Doctoral advisor
- Fredric Jameson
- Institutions
- Swedish Academy , Södertörn University , Uppsala University , Stockholm University
- Preceded by
- Knut Ahnlund
- Succeeded by
- Åsa Wikforss
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maria
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Täby
- Place of death
- Stockholm
- Mother
- Anna Wahlgren
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
- Employer
- Stockholm University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- aesthetics
- Image
- Sara Danius - 2016 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1962-04-05
- Commons category
- Sara Danius
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 2019-10-12
- cause of death
- cancer
- birth name
- Sara Maria Danius
- described by source
- Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
- significant person
- Åsa Beckman
- date of burial or cremation
- 2019-11-08
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Encyclopedic overview
Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. She was one of the central figures in the 2018 controversies resulting in the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year and the following restructuring of the academy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sara Danius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.