Sigge Eklund

Sigge Eklund
Sigge Eklund
	Sigge Eklund in May 2015
Born	Sigvard Viggo Eklund; 21 April 1974; Stockholm, Sweden
Period	1999–
Notable works	Synantrop; Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa
Spouse	Malin Eklund
Children	Viggo; Truls; Belle;
Relatives	Bengt Eklund; Klas Eklund; Fredrik Eklund; Fylgia Zadig;
Website
	www.siggeeklund.se

Sigvard Viggo "Sigge" Eklund (born 21 April 1974) is a Swedish novelist, TV producer and screenwriter. His podcast "Alex & Sigge's podcast" is the biggest in Sweden with over 500.000 listeners a week. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two sons and daughter.

Sigge Eklund was born in Stockholm, as the son of economist Klas Eklund and the brother of author, real estate broker Fredrik Eklund.

He has published five novels at Albert Bonniers förlag. His best known novel is Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa ("It's 1988 and it just began snowing"), an autobiographical story about growing up as the son of a famous father.

His latest novel Into the labyrinth has been sold to 16 countries, including France, Germany, China, Brazil and Japan.

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 (Kanal 5) and in 2011 the Swedish airing of The Academy Awards.

In 2012 he started the Swedish language podcast Alex & Sigges podcast with Alex Schulman.

2018 he moved to the U.S. and has since lived in New York and Los Angeles.

Books

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.
In i labyrinten. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014.
Tid. Stockholm: Bookmark Förlag, 2015.
Rum. Stockholm: Bookmark Förlag, 2017.

Film and television

Emmas analys Creator and producer. Kanal 5, 1996.
Celebrating Lennart Screenwriter. SVT/SFi, 2004.
Hombres Screenwriter. Kanal 5, 2005.
Frånvarande Creator and host. TV8, 2008.
Lite sällskap Producer. Kanal 5, 2010.
Nittileaks Writer. Kanal 5, 2011.
The Academy Awards Producer. Kanal 9, 2011.

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