Awards & Winners

Torgny Lindgren

Date of Birth 16-June-1938
Place of Birth Norsjö
(Västerbotten County, Norsjö Municipality, Västerbotten, Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Gustav Torgny Lindgren, Gustav Torgny Lindgren
Profession Writer, Poet, Novelist
Gustav Torgny Lindgren is a Swedish writer. Lindgren is 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. He was for several years 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 Way of a Serpent. Lindgren has been translated into more than thirty languages and is one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.

Awards by Torgny Lindgren

Check all the awards nominated and won by Torgny Lindgren.

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Sweetness
Sweden

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Bat Seba
Sweden

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize The way of a serpent
Sweden