Professor Terttu Nevalainen receives Gad Rausing Prize 2021

The prize is awarded to Professor Nevalainen for her pioneering research in the field of historical sociolinguistics.

Terttu Nevalainen is professor emerita of English philology at the Univeristy of Helsinki. She studies the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension. Professor Nevalainen was elected as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2001.

The Gad Rausing Prize is the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities’ largest prize. It was instituted by the honorary member Gad Rausing’s three children, in memory of their father. It is to be awarded to a prominent Nordic research in a number of specified subject areas.

More information on the Gad Rausing Prize 2021 (in Swedish)