Lindgren, Petter

Petter Lindgren was born in 1965. He has published four collections of poetry, including Langtbortistan (1994), Portratt av en dod smabatsagare (1997), En trogare slags black (2000), and Landskapet (2005). As a literary critic, he regularly writes for the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. For some years he has been editor of the Swedish poetry journal Lyrikvannen. Petter Lindgren's poems in English translation has appeared in the Ars Interpres, Verse, and 00TAL. In 2000 he won the prestigious De Nios Vinterpris.