Tomas Riad is the newest member of the Nobel-selecting Swedish Academy, installed in chair 6 on Tuesday.
Born in 1959, he lowers the average age appreciably -- and, as ahramonline reports in Egyptian-Swedish professor becomes member of Swedish Academy, his father is Egyptian. However, given that he's a professor för nordiska språk, it might be a bit too much to hope that he'll have them looking even more abroad .....
Born in 1959, he lowers the average age appreciably -- and, as ahramonline reports in Egyptian-Swedish professor becomes member of Swedish Academy, his father is Egyptian. However, given that he's a professor för nordiska språk, it might be a bit too much to hope that he'll have them looking even more abroad .....