Klas Östergren

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Klas Östergren
Literary
Notable works
Spouses
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  • Cilla Östergren
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Klas Östergren (born 20 February 1955) is a Swedish

translator
.

Östergren had a breakthrough with his fourth novel

Doblougska priset in 1998 and the grand prize by the literary society, Samfundet De Nio in 2005, as well as being nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay in 1999. His works have been translated to more than ten languages. In 2014 he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy
, but resigned from his seat in 2018.

Biography

Klas Östergren in 2007.
Klas Östergren in 2014.

Östergren was born in 1955 on

Södra Latins gymnasium.[4]

Klas Östergren was soon to turn twenty years old when his first novel, Attila, was published in 1975.

Swedish-language version of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and also having translated a two-volume edition (issued in September 2008) of the plays of Henrik Ibsen.[5]

From 1982 to 1989, Klas Östergren was married to Swedish actress, Pernilla Wallgren, who subsequently continued her career using the name Pernilla Östergren. They became the parents of a daughter, Agnes; and following their divorce and Pernilla's marriage to director Bille August (his daughter’s now ex-stepfather),[6] she appeared, using her new professional name, Pernilla August, in two films for which Östergren wrote the screenplays. The first, 1996's Jerusalem, adapted from the novel by Selma Lagerlöf, was directed by her husband, Bille August, and the other, Offer och gärningsmän, was a 1999 miniseries directed for Sweden's national television broadcaster, SVT, by Tomas Alfredson. His second and current wife is Cilla, with whom he has three children, Åke, Gösta, and Märta.

The 1980 novel Gentlemen was filmed in 2014 by director Mikael Marcimain.[2] He has been awarded numerous Swedish literary prizes and his works have been translated to at least a dozen languages.[7]

Östergren succeeded Ulf Linde in seat 11 of the Swedish Academy on 20 December 2014,[8] but he announced on 6 April 2018 that he would no longer participate in the Academy's work.[9] In May 2018, the Swedish Academy announced that Östergren and three other members had been allowed to formally resign.[10]

Bibliography

Filmography

Writer

  • Mördande intelligens (screenplay, 1995)
  • Jerusalem (screenplay, 1996)
  • Veranda för en tenor (short story and screenplay, 1998)
  • Offer och gärningsmän (TV miniseries screenplay, 1999)
  • Soldater i månsken (TV miniseries screenplay, 2000)
  • Syndare i sommarsol (screenplay, 2001)
  • The Marriage of Gustav III (screenplay, 2001)
  • Röd jul (short story and screenplay, 2001)
  • Evil (screenplay (non-credited), 2003)
  • En decemberdröm (TV series screenplay, 2005)
  • Gentlemen (novel and screenplay, 2014)

Actor

References

  1. ^ "Klas Östergren – En gentleman med twist". DN.SE. 21 September 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Klas Östergren". www.svenskaakademien.se. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014.
  3. ISBN 9789100111052
  4. ^ ""Vart jag än går så träffar jag dårar"". Fokus – Sveriges nyhetsmagasin. 5 March 2013.
  5. Norstedts
    , Sweden's oldest publishing house)
  6. ^ "Hollywoodstjärnans svenska döttrar berättar om uppväxten". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 15 April 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Klas Östergren". Libris.
  8. ^ Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien Archived 4 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, press release from Svenska Akademien, 28 February 2014 (in Swedish)
  9. ^ "Three members leave the Swedish Academy - DN.SE". DN.SE (in Swedish). 6 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  10. ^ Andersson, Elisabet. "Fyra personer får lämna Akademien" [Four persons have been granted permission to leave the Academy]. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

External links

Cultural offices
Preceded by Swedish Academy,
Seat No.11
2014–2018 		Succeeded by
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