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Born Dec. 19, 1932 in Uppsala, Sweden. 

• Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, especially Swedish at Harvard University 1957-58.
• Research assistant at the Division for Drama Research, Uppsala Universitet, 1965-69.
• Doctorate in Compara­tive Literature, especially Drama, at Uppsala Universitet in 1969.
• Professor of Scandinavian Studies at Universiteit van Amster­dam 1969-97.
• Visiting scholar at Yale University 1965-66, at the Netherlands Insti­tute for Advanced Study 1982-83, at the University of Washington spring 1991, and at the Center for Ibsen Studies, Universitetet i Oslo, fall 1993.
• Organizer of the 8th international Strindberg conference, in Amsterdam, 1986.
• Has lectured widely in Europe and in the United States.
• Awarded the Strindberg prize in 2004.