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Torgny Lindgren

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June 16, 1938 in Raggsjö, Sweden

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Literature & Fiction

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Gustav Torgny Lindgren is a Swedish writer.
Lindgren is 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. 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 (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). 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.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 525 ratings · 58 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Hash by Torgny Lindgren, Tom Geddes (Translation) 366 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Way Of A Serpent 412 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sweetness by Torgny Lindgren, Tom Geddes (Translator) 396 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Light 411 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Norrlands akvavit 370 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Dorés Bible 388 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Merab's Beauty And Other Stories 408 avg rating — 26 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Bathsheba 355 avg rating — 22 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer by Torgny Lindgren, Tom Geddes (translator) 417 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	I Brokiga Blads Vatten: Figurer 400 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people and placed them in reasonably realistic surroundings where they can live realistic lives, they start to fiddle about, they behave as if they had never before been in contact with real life, but had only lived in a fantasy world. They commit frightful crimes, they die and are resurrected, they ascend to heaven and allow themselves to be misled into all the foolishness the language happens to lead them to, till at last, with oaths and curses, they escape from the planned novel.”
― Torgny Lindgren

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“A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.”
― Torgny Lindgren, In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

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“Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?”
― Torgny Lindgren, In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

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