Söderströms reports that Sweden's prestigious Längman Cultural Foundation (Längmanska kulturfonden) has awarded a literary prize to the Finland-Swedish author and psychoanalyst Mikael Enckell (b. 1932), who is best known for his major studies of Proust and Hölderlin, as well as the three-volume biography of his father, the Finland-Swedish modernist poet Rabbe Enckell (1903-1974).
Among his many publications, Mikael Enckell has also written essays and monographs on English literature, notably the work of George Eliot (Daniel Deronda), on Jewish theology (The Soul that Wouldn't Shrink), and on the filmmaker Luchino Visconti.
