Background
Sigge Eklund was born in Stockholm, as the son of economist Klas Eklund and the brother of author, real estate broker and former porn star Fredrik Eklund.
Sigge Eklund was born in Stockholm, as the son of economist Klas Eklund and the brother of author, real estate broker and former porn star Fredrik Eklund.
His podcast "Alex & Sigge"s podcast" is the biggest in Sweden with over 500.000 listeners a week. He has published five novels at Albert Bonniers förlag. His best known novel is Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa ("lieutenant"s 1988 and it just began snowing"), an autobiographical story about growing up as the son of a famous father.
His latest novel Into the labyrinth has been sold to 16 countries, including France, Germany, China, Brazil and Japan.
In 2004, he wrote the short film Celebrating Lennart (SVT/SFi) and was a co-writer of the Swedish television show Hombres (Kanal5). In 2008 he created and hosted the talk show Frånvarande (TV8), in 2010 he produced the reality show Lite sällskap (Kanal 5) and in 2011 the Swedish airing of The Academy Awards.
In 2012 he started the podcast Alex & Sigges podcast (sv) together with Alex Schulman.