Abram de Swaan
Abram de Swaan in 2010
Born	(1942-01-08) 8 January 1942 (age 82) Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abram de Swaan (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːbrɑm də sʋaːn]; born 8 January 1942) is a Dutch essayist, sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam.

In 1996, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2000.^[2]

He developed the concept of a global language system.

He received the P. C. Hooft Award in 2008.^[3]

Bibliography

Books in Dutch

• Amerika in termijnen (1968)
• Halverwege de Heilstaat (essays; 1983)
• Zorg en de Staat (1989)
• Perron Nederland (1991)
• Moord en de staat (2003)
• Tegen de vrouwen (2019)

Books in English

• In Care of the State (1988)
• The Management of Normality (1990)
• Words of the World (2001)
• The Killing Compartments (2015)

Awards

• P. C. Hooft Award (2008) for his oeuvre

References

External links

• Media related to Abram de Swaan at Wikimedia Commons

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