Sigge Eklund
Encyclopedia
Sigvard Viggo "Sigge" Eklund (born 21 April 1974) is a Swedish
novel
ist, TV producer and screenwriter. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.
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
.
He has published four novels at Albert Bonniers förlag. His most known novel is Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa ("It's 1988 and has just started snowing"), an autobiographical story about growing up as the son of a famous father.
In 2004, he wrote the short film "Celebrating Lennart" (SVT/SFi) and was a co-writer of the Swedish TV show "Hombres" (Kanal5). In 2008 he created and hosted the talk show "Frånvarande" (TV8), in 2010 he produced the reality show "Lite sällskap" (Kanal5) and in 2011 the Swedish airing of The Academy Awards.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, TV producer and screenwriter. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.
Sigge Eklund was born in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, as the son of economist Klas Eklund
Klas Eklund
Klas Eklund is a Swedish economist and writer.Eklund was born in Uppsala as the son of the actor couple Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig . He went to high school in Stockholm, but also spent a year at Wausau Senior High in Wisconsin...
and the brother of author, real estate broker and former porn star Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund is a New York City real estate broker, a former Information technology entrepreneur in his native Sweden, a gay porn actor and a novelist.-Family:Eklund is the brother of the author Sigge Eklund and the son of Klas Eklund, who is a senior economist at...
.
He has published four novels at Albert Bonniers förlag. His most known novel is Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa ("It's 1988 and has just started snowing"), an autobiographical story about growing up as the son of a famous father.
In 2004, he wrote the short film "Celebrating Lennart" (SVT/SFi) and was a co-writer of the Swedish TV show "Hombres" (Kanal5). In 2008 he created and hosted the talk show "Frånvarande" (TV8), in 2010 he produced the reality show "Lite sällskap" (Kanal5) and in 2011 the Swedish airing of The Academy Awards.
Novels
- Synantrop : en kärlekshistoria. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1999.
- Den sista myten. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2002.
- Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2005.
- Varulvsvalsen. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2007.
Film & TV
- "Emmas analys" Creator and producer. Kanal5, 1996.
- "Celebrating Lennart" Screenwriter. SVT/SFi, 2004.
- "Hombres" Screenwriter. Kanal5, 2005.
- "Frånvarande" Creator and host. TV8, 2008.
- "Lite sällskap" Producer. Kanal5, 2010.
- "Nittleaks" Writer. Kanal5, 2011.
- "The Academy Awards" Producer. Kanal9, 2011.