Stig Claesson

John Stig Claesson ( born June 2, 1928 in Huddinge, near Stockholm, † January 4, 2008 in Stockholm) was a Swedish writer, visual artist and illustrator.

After Claesson had visited the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm 1947-1952, he began to illustrate Swedish classics, such as the historic Stockholm descriptions of Per Anders Fogelström. His drawings he signed with the abbreviation Slas.

As an author, he made his debut in 1956. Several of his books are based on travel abroad and move the frontier between reportage and fiction. Among his most famous works is the predominantly based in Cyprus novel En vandring i solen ( walk in the sun ) from 1976, which was filmed with Gösta Ekman in the lead role. Hearing he obtained also with works that describe the remote and dominated by rural exodus regions of Sweden, and explores the conflict between town and country, so as the translated into more than ten languages ​​and also filmed novel Vem älskar Yngve Frej (1968; Who Loves Yngve Frej ). By 2006, Claesson wrote more than 80 books, as well as several screenplays.

Stig Claessons work has won several awards, such as the Literature Prize of the Svenska Dagbladet and the Selma Lagerlöf - prize. Uppsala University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1974.

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  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature (Swedish)
  • Novel, epic
  • Man
  • Swede
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 2008
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Uppsala
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