Göran Malmqvist

Nils Göran David Malmqvist (6 June 1924 – 17 October 2019) was a Swedish linguist, literary historian, sinologist and translator. He worked for seven years at the Australian National University in Canberra during the 1950s.
During the 1970s, he was also working on the translation of the over thousand page picaresque novel "Shui Hu zhuan". The Swedish title is "Berättelser från träskmarkerna" (Tales from the swamps) and the work appeared in four volumes between 1976 and 1979.
Malmqvist was elected to the Swedish Academy on 11 April 1985 and admitted on 20 December 1985.