The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature ; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

A History of Swedish Literature.

* Poesin blev min räddning ( 1977 ), documentary directed by Humberto López y Guerra about the Spanish Literature Nobel Prize Winner Vicente Aleixandre produced for Swedish Television TV1-Kultur

Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described it as " a mistake " that Blixen was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 1930s.

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam ( Swedish )

The Swedish Academy and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and the Prize in Economic Sciences.

** Swedish Language and Literature

A History of Swedish Literature.

* Algulin, Ingemar ( 1989 ) A History of Swedish Literature ( Swedish Institute ) ISBN 91-520-0239-X

She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was described by the Swedish Academy as " that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny ".

* A History of Swedish Literature 1989

* A History of Swedish Literature 1996

Selma Lagerlöf receives the Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of the Swedish monarch Gustav V.

The emphasis on psychology in his post-war books – Literature and Psychology, Style, The Search for Good Sense, The Art of Living, the essay on ' Happiness ' in The Greatest Problem – reflects an interest shared with his third wife, the Swedish psychologist Elna Kallenberg, whom he married in 1940-" the stranger who came to me from beyond the sea when I most needed her " ( Kallenberg had flown from Sweden to join him in 1939 ).

The academies he joined were: the Academy of Science and Literature ( joined in 1807 ), Academy of Science ( 1808 ), the Academy of Literature History ( 1810 ), the Academy of Agriculture and Forestry ( 1818 ), the Swedish Academy ( 1819 ), the Scientific society in Uppsala ( 1820 ) and the Academy of Music ( 1822 ).

The Swedish Academy agreed and awarded Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

French novelist and intellectual André Malraux was considered for the Literature prize in the 1950s, according to Swedish Academy archives studied by newspaper Le Monde on their opening in 2008.

This article also discusses Swedish author and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Selma Lagerlöf's positive outlook toward the commune, including the influence it had on her when she wrote her novel Jerusalem.

* Algulin, Ingemar, A History of Swedish Literature, published by the Swedish Institute, 1989.

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* 1904 – Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th general of the Salvation Army ( d. 1996 )

* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

** Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1904 )

It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled " On a continuous curve without tangents, constructible from elementary geometry " ( original French title: Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire ) by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.

In 1903 followed the Swiss association, in 1904 the British, in 1906 the German and Swedish etc.

AGA AB, previously AB Gasaccumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament.

The second edition was published between 1904 and 1926 in 38 volumes, and is thereby the most comprehensive encyclopedia published in the Swedish language.

For example, the Swedish encyclopedic dictionary Nordisk familjebok of 1904 showed an inaccurate Archaeopteryx reconstruction ( see illustration ) of the fossil, " ett af de betydelsefullaste paleontologiska fynd, som någonsin gjorts " (" one of the most significant paleontological discoveries ever made ").

Alexander Lagerman ( 1836 – 1904 ), a Swedish engineer that was employed by the Lundström brothers, invented the first fully automatic match machine.

* Lindorm, an article from Nordisk Familjebok ( 1904 – 1926 ), a Swedish encyclopedia now in the Public Domain.

Between 1901 and 1904, Otto Nordenskiöld led the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, one of the first expeditions that was to explore parts of Antarctica.

* Carl Daniel Ekman ( 1845 – 1904 ), Swedish chemical engineer

The Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1904 by the Geological Society of London, and in 1905 he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

After a visit to Sweden in 1904, a Swedish tournament called the Corinthian Bowl was set up to commemorate them.

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 1904 ) named a glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean after De Geer.

Bo Gunnar Rickardsson Hägglöf GCVO ( 1904 – 1994 ) was a Swedish diplomat, in 1939 briefly cabinet member, then head of the foreign ministry's bureau for foreign trade during World War II, after the war participating in the preparations of the United Nations ' 1947 UN Partition Plan of Palestine, then ambassador to London 1948 – 1967 and Paris 1967 – 1971.

* Wargentins notes on his family, edited and published in the journal Personhistorisk tidskrift 1904, pp. 28 – 38 ( in Swedish ).

* Upplands regemente ( infantry ), Swedish Army infantry regiment ( 1626 – 1904, 1928 – 1957 )

Gustav Adolfs akademiens årsbok, founded in 1934 and Arv: Nordic yearbook of folklore, founded in 1946, and Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv ( English title: Swedish dialects and folk traditions ), published since 1904 by the Archives for Dialect and Folklore studies in Uppsala and taken over by the Academy in 1996.

He joined the Swedish Coast Guard in 1904 as a midshipman.