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    Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian born on April 4, 1957. He focuses on writing non-fiction books and essays, mostly about the Swedish...
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    Peter Englund (born 4 February 1950, Stockholm), is a Swedish economist. He was professor at Uppsala University 1988-1998 and is professor at the Stockholm...
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    to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund. Engdahl was born in Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden. He earned his B.A...
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    Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare...
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    in the big dialogue of literature." In 2009, Engdahl's replacement, Peter Englund, rejected this sentiment ("In most language areas ... there are authors...
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    She took over the post as permanent secretary of the academy from Peter Englund on 1 June 2015. She played a central role in awarding the literature...
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    criticism. The Eurocentric nature of the award was acknowledged by Peter Englund, the 2009 Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, as a problem with...
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  • Robert K. Englund (March 29, 1952 - May 24, 2020) was an American Archaeologist and Assyriologist. Robert Keith Englund was born in Bellingham, Washington;...
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    2019 8. Jesper Svenbro 1944 80 2006 9. Ellen Mattson 1962 62 2019 10. Peter Englund 1957 67 2002 Permanent secretary 2009–2015. 11. Mats Malm 1964 60 2018...
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  • Englund is a surname of Swedish origin, meaning "meadow grove" (from Swedish äng, meadow, and lund, grove). As of 2014, 57.0% of all known bearers of...
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    Christina, Queen of Sweden (category Burials at St. Peter's Basilica)
    Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). pp. 291–292. Peter Englund: Sølvmasken (p. 61) Peter Englund: Sølvmasken (p. 64) Ragnar Sjöberg in Drottning Christina...
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    Landmark Media Inc. 2005. OCLC 71846562. Nissen, Hans Jörg; Damerow, Peter; Englund, Robert K. (1993). "The Administrative Activities of Kushim". Archaic...
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    1986–1987 Lars E. O. Svensson, 1991–1992 Torsten Persson, 1993–2001 Peter Englund, 2002––2013 Torsten Persson, 2014– Bengt-Christer Ysander, 1991–1992...
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    Person had sold just 2,425 copies in the US prior to the Nobel. Even Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, noted that many people...
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    member Klas Östergren left the academy and academy members Sara Danius, Peter Englund, Kjell Espmark and Frostenson ceased taking part in the academy's work...
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    the Norwegian fort. In 1917, his head was photographed and x-rayed. Peter Englund asserted in his essay "On the death of Charles XII and other murders"...
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    Frostenson 2002-2015, associate member 2015-2018 Kristina Lugn 2008-2020 Peter Englund associate member 2009-2015 Sara Danius associate member 2015-2019 Sara...
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  • Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1–27, 1998 Nissen, HansJörg; Damerow, Peter; Englund, Robert K., "Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic...
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    though most of them are originally from Latin or Greek. The historian Peter Englund has noted that Swedish-ruled Finland was not so much part of a national...
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    Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, surrounded by the international media when announcing the Nobel Prize in literature 2010...
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    Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-28156-7. Nissen, Hans Jörg; Damerow, Peter; Englund, Robert K. (1993). Archaic bookkeeping: early writing and techniques...
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    von Peter Damerow und Robert K. Englund, "Zeichenliste der Archaischen Texte aus Uruk", Berlin, 1987 ISBN 978-3786114390 ATU 3. Robert K. Englund und...
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    Peter; Englund, Robert K (1987). Die zahlzeichensysteme der archaischen texte aus Uruk. Berlin: Gebr. Mann. OCLC 255161013. Damerow, Peter; Englund,...
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    of the Swedish Academy for much of her later life. On 15 May 2011, Peter Englund published the news of Trotzig's death in the evening of 14 May after...
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  • University Press. pp. 165–186. ISBN 9780195108071. Nissen, Hans J.; Damerow, Peter; Englund, Robert K. (1993). Archaic bookkeeping: Early writing and techniques...
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    the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature by Permanent secretary Peter Englund. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 nobelprize.org Herta Müller britannica...
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    Ullgren, Peter (2008). Det stora nordiska kriget 1700–1721 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Prisma. p. 169. ISBN 978-91-518-5107-5. Englund, Peter (1988). Poltava...
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    prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf on her behalf on December 10, 2013. Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, expressed the rightfulness...
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    three Swedish Academy members (Klas Östergren, Kjell Espmark, and Peter Englund) resigned in response to a sexual-misconduct investigation involving...
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    to the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo instead. Kjell Espmark and Peter Englund, members of the Swedish Academy, have both described this decision as...
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