Biography Klas_Östergren



klas Östergren in 2014.


Östergren born in 1955 on lilla essingen in stockholm. youngest of 4 siblings. father finnish , mother swedish. went secondary school @ södra latins gymnasium.


klas Östergren turn twenty years old when first novel, attila, published in 1975. gained critical acclaim , high readership 5 years later novel, gentlemen. writer of screenplays , teleplays, honored in 1999 when veranda för en tenor [waiting tenor], screen treatment (which co-wrote lisa ohlin) of short story med stövlarna på och andra berättelser, nominated sweden s equivalent of academy award, guldbagge. 1 of country s highly regarded literary translators, having published swedish-language version of j. d. salinger s catcher in rye , having translated two-volume edition (issued in september 2008) of plays of henrik ibsen.


from 1982 1989, klas Östergren married swedish actress, pernilla wallgren, subsequently continued career using name pernilla Östergren. became parents of daughter, agnes; , following divorce , pernilla s marriage director bille august, appeared, using new professional name, pernilla august, in 2 films Östergren wrote screenplays. first, 1996 s jerusalem, adapted novel selma lagerlöf, directed husband, bille august, , other, offer och gärningsmän, 1999 miniseries directed sweden s national television broadcaster, svt, tomas alfredson. second , current wife cilla, whom has 3 children, Åke, gösta, , märta.


the 1980 novel gentlemen filmed in 2014 director mikael marcimain.








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