Klas Östergren

Klas Östergren (born 20 February 1955) is a Swedish novelist, screenwriter, and translator.

Klas Östergren
Klas Östergren in 2007.
BornKlas Östergren
(1955-02-20) 20 February 1955
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationNovelist, screenwriter, translator
NationalitySwedish
Period1975–present
GenreLiterary
Notable works
Spouses
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    (m. 1982; div. 1989)​
    • Cilla Östergren
    Children4

    Östergren succeeded Ulf Linde in seat 11 of the Swedish Academy on 20 December 2014,[1] but he announced on 6 April 2018 that he would no longer participate in the Academy's work.[2] The Academy announced in May 2018 that Östergren and three other members had been allowed to formally resign.[3] He was nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay in 1999, and he received the grand prize bestowed by the country's premier literary society, Samfundet De Nio, in 2005.

    Biography
    Klas Östergren in 2014.

    Östergren was born in 1955 on Lilla Essingen in Stockholm.[4] He was the youngest of four siblings.[5] His father was Finnish and his mother was Swedish.[6] He went to secondary school at Södra Latins gymnasium.[7]

    Klas Östergren was soon to turn twenty years old when his first novel, Attila, was published in 1975.[5] He gained critical acclaim and high readership five years later with the novel, Gentlemen. As a writer of screenplays and teleplays, he was honored in 1999 when Veranda för en tenor [Waiting for the Tenor], the screen treatment (which he co-wrote with Lisa Ohlin) of a short story from Med stövlarna på och andra berättelser, was nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay (Sweden's equivalent of the Academy Award). He is also one of his country's most highly regarded literary translators, having published a 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.[8]

    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, 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.[5]

    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. Ny ledamot i Svenska Akademien Archived 4 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, press release from Svenska Akademien, 28 February 2014 (in Swedish)
    2. "Three members leave the Swedish Academy - DN.SE". DN.SE (in Swedish). 6 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
    3. 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.
    4. "Klas Östergren – En gentleman med twist". DN.SE.
    5. http://www.svenskaakademien.se/akademien/de_aderton/klas_östergren Archived 21 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
    6. Östergren, Klas; Farran-Lee Stephen (2007), Östergren om Östergren: i samtal med Stephen Farran-Lee (in Swedish), Stockholm: Bonnier, ISBN 9789100111052
    7. "»Vart jag än går så träffar jag dårar«". Fokus – Sveriges nyhetsmagasin.
    8. New edition of the plays of Henrik Ibsen, translated by Klas Östergren (on the website of Norstedts, Sweden's oldest publishing house)
    Cultural offices
    Preceded by
    Ulf Linde    		 Swedish Academy,
    Seat No.11
    2014–2018    		 Succeeded by
    Mats Malm
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