ABOUT
Organisation
The Board
The Board of the Swedish Authors' Fund consists of 28 members (including deputy members). The Government appoints the chairperson and seven members. The Swedish Writers' Union appoints 16 members, while the Association of Swedish Illustrators and the Association of Swedish Professional Photographers appoint two members each. Thus the originators' organizations make up the majority of the Board.
The Board appoints a number of committees, each of which prepares relevant agenda items and puts forwards proposals to the Board on relevant matters. For decisions regarding certain grants, the Board may authorize committees to make independent decisions.
The subcommittee on playwrights has the authorization to make decisions regarding disbursement of grants to playwrights and grants to theatres for commissioning new Swedish drama.
The subcommittee on playwrights has a particularly autonomous status in relation to the Swedish Authors' Fund. It is regulated in the ordinance that controls the activities and organization of the Fund. Moreover, the majority of the members of the subcommittee are not members of the Board of the Fund, but are appointed on the basis of proposals from The Swedish Playwrights' Union.
The board and subcommittees (pdf)
The office
The Authors' Fund is administered by a secretariat with six employees. The managing director is also the secretary of the Board.