Torgny Lindgren

{{Short description|Swedish writer (1938–2017}}

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| name = Torgny Lindgren

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| caption = Lindgren in Stavanger, Norway, in September 2009

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| birth_name = Gustav Torgny Lindgren

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|6|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Raggsjö, Norsjö, Västerbotten, Sweden

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|3|16|1938|6|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Rimforsa, Sweden

| occupation = Poet, novelist

| nationality = Swedish

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| period = 1965–2017

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• The Way of a Serpent
• Sweetness

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| spouse = Stina

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• Aina
• Ylva
• Torgils

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Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017){{cite news|url=http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/torgny-lindgren-har-avlidit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316163928/http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/torgny-lindgren-har-avlidit/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 March 2017 |title=Torgny Lindgren har avlidit |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |date=16 March 2017}} was a Swedish writer.{{cite web|url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/the-academy/chair-no-9-torgny-lindgren |title=Chair no. 9 - Torgny Lindgren |publisher=Swedish Academy |access-date=16 March 2017}}

Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.

Lindgren started out as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren's work was translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.