Sara Danius, the first woman to lead the Swedish institution that awards the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at age 57.
Her family told Swedish news agency TT that Danius, a literary scholar, critic and author, passed away early Saturday following a long illness.Danius was elected to a lifetime position on the Swedish Academy's board in 2013 and because the body's first female permanent secretary in 2015. She resigned the position in 2018.
"Everything she did was characterized by a rare strength and luminosity," read a brief obituary on the Swedish Academy's website Saturday.
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