Gustav Torgny Lindgren is a Swedish writer. Lindgren is the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Bj�rk. He studied in Ume� 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. 

June 16th, 1938 in Norsjö  /  Died:   Mar 16th, 2017