Herman Lindqvist (journalist)

Herman Lindqvist ( born April 1, 1943 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish writer, journalist and popular historian.

Lindqvist was a foreign correspondent in Prague, Paris, Beirut, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Cairo, Tokyo, and Madrid. There he was mainly concerned with war and disaster and wrote about his stay amongst others Causeriebücher.

In recent years, he became known for his popular - historic television and the series of books The history of Sweden ( Sverige histories om ), which was sold in large editions. One often refers to him as royalists, because in his lyrics are in the traditional way the royal family and other personalities at the center, while social and economic changes take little space.

Biography

Always on Swedish history interested, he grew up after the Second World War, the youngest of six brothers and sisters at the Swedish embassy in Helsinki on. Lindqvists father was press attaché and so he came home early with a large number of foreign correspondents in contact. At 22 he began his career at the newspaper Stockholms Tidningen, then worked at the Gothenburg commerce and maritime affairs newspaper, the tabloid Aftonbladet, the newspaper Express, the Swedish television and radio. Since 1990 he has been a freelance writer, but lived in Sweden only seven years of his life.

Currently lives in Lindqvist Chambourcy near Paris. He is an adoptive great-grandson of Herman Lindqvist (1863-1932), grandson of the writer Leon Larsson, married to Birgitta Lindqvist since 1979 and the father of Elin, Johan, Liva, Peter and Lena Lindqvist.

In 2012, he was horrified over the name of the Swedish Crown Princess Estelle of Sweden after her birth. He described it as " totally unexpected and inappropriate " and " name of a nightclub queen ". With his statements, he sparked a debate in the Swedish press and on the Internet.