Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

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The current permanent secretary of the Academy is Peter Englund, who was preceded by Horace Engdahl.

* Horace Engdahl ( born 1948 ), Swedish literary critic

On 1 June 2009 he succeeded Horace Engdahl as the permanent secretary of the Academy.

Ebba Witt-Brattström is ( since 1989 ) married to Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

In 2008, Horace Engdahl, then the permanent secretary of the Academy, declared that " Europe still is the center of the literary world " and that " the US is too isolated, too insular.