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Carl-Johan Vallgren

カール・ヨハン・ヴァルグレン

Kāru Yohan Varuguren

Aliases: Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1964-07-26 (Linköping)
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Unknown

Career

Occupations
novelist, singer, musician
Active Years
1987-2024

Awards

August Prize
2002
Work: Den vidunderliga kärlekens historia
Category: Best Fiction
Organization: August Prize
Result: 受賞
Best Swedish Crime Novel Award
2024
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot

2002 novel

A fantastical novel set in 18th-century Europe.

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Translations
  • English translation available

Bibliography

  • Nomaderna (1987)
  • Längta bort (1988)
  • Fågelkvinnan (1990)
  • Berättelser om sömn och vaka (1994)
  • Dokument rörande spelaren Rubashov (1996)
  • För herr Bachmanns broschyr (1998)
  • Berlin på 8 kapitel (1999)
  • The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot (2002)
  • Kunzelmann och Kunzelmann (2009)
  • Havsmannen (2012)
  • The Tunnel
  • The Boy in the Shadows (2015)
  • The Merman (2017)

Legacy

Swedish novelist known for winning the August Prize.

Trivia

  • Of Finnish descent through his mother, who was sent to Sweden as a Finnish war child during World War II.