Sunne, Sweden

Sunne is a locality and the seat of Sunne Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 10,000 inhabitants in 2010.[1]

Sunne
Sunne Sound and Sunne Church in March 2010
Sunne
Coordinates: 59°50′N 13°08′E
Country	Sweden
Province	Värmland
County	Värmland County
Municipality	Sunne Municipality
Area [1]
• Total	4.57 km^2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2010)[1]
• Total	4,931
• Density	1,078/km^2 (2,790/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

The town straddles the sound connecting Övre Fryken (Northern lake) with Mellan-Fryken (Middle lake).

Printing and packaging are significant industries in Sunne. The companies Tetra Pak and Miller Graphics have facilities in the town and the local college provides a specialist course in printing technology.

In the summer there is a large music festival.

The painter Tage Åsén who made the cover paintings for two of his books about Sunne and who currently is working on his project about Sunne called Brobytornet (the Broby Tower). Broby is the name Selma Lagerlöf gave Sunne in her books. Each year The Foundation Selma Lagerlöf Literary Prize awards a prominent Swedish writer.

Notable people

• Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 1948), football coach, former coach of the England national football team, was born in Sunne and has a house on the outskirts of the town.
• Ursula and Sabina Eriksson (born 1967), twin sisters, convicted of manslaughter in England, grew up in Sunne.
• Ana Johnsson (born 1977), singer, grew up in Sunne.
• Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lived in Mårbacka, just southeast of Sunne. Two of the town's hotels are named after her.
• Göran Tunström (1937–2000), author, grew up in Sunne.

References

1. "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.