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Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist's critically praised vampire story Låt Den Rätte Komma In ( 2004 ) about the relationship of a 12-year-old boy with a 200-year-old vampire child has now been translated into English as Let the Right One In ( 2007 ) and a film adaptation has been produced.
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* 1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish author
* 1967 – Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish actress and author
* 1941 – Karin Boye, Swedish author ( b. 1900 )
In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.
** based on a novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.
" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".
From Children of the Forest ( 1910 ) by Swedish author and illustrator Elsa Beskow.
* 1874 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author ( d. 1953 )
He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i. e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
* 1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer ( b. 1890 )
* 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author ( b. 1922 )
According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren ( 1980 ), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster are associated with the old legends of kelpies.
* 1967 – Nina Björk, Swedish activist and author
* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )
* 1858 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate ( d. 1940 )
* 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.
* 1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author ( d. 1968 )
* 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1905 )
Madame Chiang appears as a minor character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.
In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.
Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.
** Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author ( b. 1906 )
Swedish and John
* 1938 – John Larsson, Swedish 17th General of The Salvation Army
* 1982 – John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer
During the Thirty Years ' War, Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna brought the Moravian Brethren refugee John Amos Comenius to Elbląg for six years ( 1642 – 48 ).
* 1953 – John Ausonius, Swedish criminal and murderer
In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.
This story was often repeated over the next century, but scholarly research in the late 20th century suggested that John Hanson was of English heritage and not related to these Swedish American Hansons.
" John Hanson of Maryland: A Swedish Heritage Disproved ".
Elector John Sigismund was favorably inclined towards the Swedish king, but he had become very infirm after an apoplexic stroke in the autumn of 1617.
The Elector John Sigismund, Maria Eleonora's father, died on 23 December 1619, and the prospect of a Swedish marriage seemed gone with him.
In 1220, the Swedish army led by king John I of Sweden and the bishop Karl of Linköping conquered Lihula in Rotalia in Western Estonia.
As part of a study launched in 1980 by Ambio, a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Paul Crutzen and John Birks circulated a draft paper in early 1982 with the first quantitative evidence of alterations in short-term climate after a nuclear war.
A drawing by John Bauer ( illustrator ) | John Bauer on Swedish folklore
* October 25 – John Levén, Swedish bassist ( Europe )
* March 8 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer ( b. 1803 )
* September 29 – The Swedish king Eric XIV is deposed by his half-brothers John and Charles.
* July 31 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer ( d. 1889 )
Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.
The Swedish Crown Prince Charles XIV John of Sweden | Charles John ( Bernadotte ), who staunchly opposed Norwegian independence, only to offer generous terms of union After brief fighting, the peace established a personal union between the two states.
After the start of the Swedish invasion of Poland known as " The Deluge ", John Sobieski was among the Greater Polish regiments led by Krzysztof Opaliński, Palatine of Poznań which capitulated at Ujście, and swore allegiance to King Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
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