Gunnar Mattsson

Kaj Gunnar Wolter Mattsson (5 May 1937 – 9 August 1989) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and journalist.[1] Mattsson rose to fame as a result of his book Prinsessan. The book was translated into some thirty languages, including English, it was a bestseller in Finland[2] and was filmed as A Time in the Sun in Sweden. His other notable works include the sequel Prinsen (The Prince, 1966), Jätten (The Giant, 1969), and Kungen (The King, 1971).[3]

Biography

Mattsson was born in Helsinki to sea captain Wolter Eugene Mattsson and bank clerk Elli Gertrud Eriksson. He attended the Swedish secondary school in Kimito. He worked as a journalist for the Vestmanlands Läns Tidning newspaper in Sweden from 1961 to 1963, and then for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1963.[3] He married Virpi Augustin in 1961, and they divorced the same year; in 1964 he married Seija Terhikki Lainela.[3] Suffering from alcoholism, he committed suicide at the age of 52 in Helsinki.[2]

References

  1. ^ Mattsson, Gunnar. Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish).
  2. ^ a b Lundberg, Staffan (10 December 2015). "Prinsen 50, minns sin pappa med värme". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). pp. 14–15.
  3. ^ a b c "Mattsson, Kaj Gunnar Wolter". Writers in Finland 1945–1980 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1985. pp. 398–399. ISBN 951-717-348-2.

Further reading

  • Mattsson, Gunnar (1968). The Princess: Unabridged. Translated by Joan Bulman. London: Pan books.
  • Stendahl, Majsan (2015). Gunnar Mattsson: Han fick prinsessan – men var blev kungariket? (in Swedish). Helsingfors. ISBN 978-952-93-5209-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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