Torgny Lindgren

Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer.

Life
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.

Lindgren died in Stockholm on 16 March 2017 from stomach cancer, aged 78.

Career
Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren was translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.

Awards and honors
 1986 – Prix Femina étranger (for Bathsheba)
 1995 – The August Prize (for Sweetness)
 2000 – The Selma Lagerlöf Prize
 2001 – Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  
 2002 – Litteris et Artibus
 2004 – De Nios Stora Pris

References

Category:1938 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:Deaths from stomach cancer
Category:Cancer deaths in Sweden
Category:Swedish poets
Category:Swedish novelists