| Date of Birth | 16-June-1938 | |
| Place of Birth |
Norsjö (Västerbotten County, Norsjö Municipality, Västerbotten, Sweden) |
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| 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. | ||
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