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Members of the 18-person Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose

Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges

Previous Nobel prize laureates in literature

Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries