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Born | Gustav Torgny Lindgren 16 June 1938 Raggsjö, Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden |
Died | 16 March 2017 Rimforsa, Sweden | (aged 78)
Occupation | Poet, novelist |
Nationality | Swedish |
Period | 1965–2017 |
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Spouse | Stina |
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Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017[1]) was a Swedish writer.[2]
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.
Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren's work was translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.[2]