Its current secretary is Horace Engdahl (previously [[Sture Allén]]). Each year in December, the academy gives out the Nobel Prize, originally founded by Alfred Nobel in his will. |
Its current secretary is Horace Engdahl (previously Sture Allén). Each year in December, the academy gives out the Nobel Prize, originally founded by Alfred Nobel in his will. |
The academy publishes a one-volume dictionary called Svenska Akademiens Ordlista (SAOL) and a multi-volume dictionary (similar to the Oxford English Dictionary) called Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (SAOB). The SAOB's first part was published in 1898 and today (2001) work is done at the end of the "S" words.
Its current secretary is Horace Engdahl (previously Sture Allén). Each year in December, the academy gives out the Nobel Prize, originally founded by Alfred Nobel in his will.
See the academy's own website, http://www.svenskaakademien.se/