Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy.
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their production company AB Svenska Ord. His most celebrated contribution to their brand of humorist humanism was his ability to extemporize wildly absurd comic situations, for example in the Lindeman dialogues.
Asta Kask is a Swedish punk band from Töreboda, Sweden, founded in 1978. Asta Kask plays melodic punk music with Swedish lyrics; they are a foundational band for the musical subgenre known as trallpunk.
Livet är en schlager is a Swedish film released in 2000, written by Jonas Gardell and directed by his usual directing partner Susanne Bier. The film features cameo appearances by many Swedish singers. The film was produced by Nordisk Film and Sveriges Television in association with Sonet Film and TV2 Denmark.
Kerstin Thorvall was an influential Swedish novelist.
'De första åren' is a box set by Swedish pop singer and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, released in 2004.
Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves is a 2012 three-part Swedish TV drama about the impact of AIDS in Stockholm's gay community in the early 1980s. It is based on the Swedish novelist Jonas Gardell's trilogy with the same name, with each episode covering one of the three novels that are subtitled Love, Disease and Death.
Tack & farväl was released on 14 November 2012 and is a Thorleifs double compilation album in connection to the band disestablishment the same year. The opening track, Déjà vu, was new-written by Thomas G:son. That song was originally written for Melodifestivalen 2008., where Thorleifs were originally intended to participate.
Våra bästa år is a 2007 Thorleifs double compilation album. Seven of the songs were new back then. Outside Sweden, special versions of the album were released in Denmark, Finland and Norway. On the album charts, it peaked at 24th position in Denmark, and 7th position in Sweden.
En komikers uppväxt is a 1992 novel by Swedish writer Jonas Gardell. Loosely based on his own upbringing, the novel portrays a boy, Juha, struggling with acceptance and belonging in suburban Stockholm. Juha is torn between loyalty to his old friends, the outcast kids Jenny and Thomas, and wanting to be one of the cool kids and get the popular girls.
Artister mot nazister was originally a term referring to a music gala inside the Stockholm Globe Arena in Sweden on 16 January 2001, against ideologies and opinions like nazism, racism, fascism and xenophobia. Following the gala several artists and groups created a foundation called Artister mot nazister. The gala aired over TV4 and live over SR P3.
Adam Reier Lundgren is a Swedish actor. He is best known internationally for starring in the television series Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar in 2012, Blå ögon in 2014 and Vår tid är nu (2017-2019). In the latter successful SVT series he plays restaurant-owner Peter Löwander.
Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer.
Adam Gustav Justus Pålsson is a Swedish actor and musician. He has worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and is known for his portrayal of Kurt Wallander in the Netflix series Young Wallander, as a lead [Christian] in the series Before We Die and as the lead character, Tom Blixen, in the series Moscow Noir.
Established by Swedish magazine QX in 1999, the Gaygalan Awards are an annual event created to hand out prizes for LGBT achievements. In 2004, the gala was broadcast for the first time on Sveriges Television when it was held at Hamburger Börs with Annika Lantz as the host.
Katarzyna Tubylewicz is a Polish writer, translator, and a journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mårten Adolfsson Melin is a Swedish author of children's and youth books, who received the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2022.
