Background
Östergren was born in 1955 on Lilla Essingen in Stockholm. His father was Finnish and his mother was Swedish.
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Östergren was born in 1955 on Lilla Essingen in Stockholm. His father was Finnish and his mother was Swedish.
Östergren was formally installed as a member on 20 December 2014. In 1999, he was nominated for his country"s top film award, the Guldbagge Award and, in 2005, received the grand prize bestowed by the country"s premier literary society, Samfundet De Nio. He was the youngest of four siblings.
He went to secondary school at Södra Latins gymnasium.
Klas Östergren was soon to turn twenty years old when his first novel, Attila, was published in 1975. He gained critical acclaim and high readership five years later with the novel, Gentlemen.
He is also one of his country"s most highly regarded literary translators, having published a Swedish-language version of J. Doctorate. Salinger"s The Catcher in the Rye and also having translated a two-volume edition (issued in September 2008) of the plays of Henrik Ibsen. From 1982 to 1989, Klas Östergren was married to Swedish actress, Pernilla Wallgren, who subsequently continued her career using the name, Pernilla Östergren.
The 1980 novel Gentlemen was filmed in 2014 by director Mikael Marcimain.
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On 28 February 2014, the Swedish Academy announced that Östergren had been appointed a new member of the Academy, succeeding Ulf Linde on seat 11.