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Sven Lindqvist is a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction, whose works include Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing.
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932. He holds a PhD in History of literature from Stockholm University and a 1979 honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. In 1960–1961, he worked as cultural attaché at the Swedish embassy in Beijing, China. From 1956–86 he was married to Cecilia Lindqvist, with whom he had two children. In 1986 he married the economist Agneta Stark. He lives in the Södermalm area of central Stockholm.
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