Lars Gyllenhaal
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Lars H. F. Gyllenhaal (born 1968) is a Swedish author, mainly writing on military history. He is the only child of former press counsellor to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Herman L. Gyllenhaal and childrens' nurse Monica R. Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son.
After Swedish secondary school Gyllenhaal studied French at the the University of Savoy in France, and Russian at a language institute (MISI) in Moscow, USSR.
Gyllenhaal began writing as a freelancer for military history journals and newspapers. During 1992-94 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula in North-West Russia, to teach languages (English and Swedish) and assist during twin city cooperation.
After returning to Sweden he, together with his wife, was recruited by Centek, an internationally and locally active industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek from 1994 and left on his own accord in 2000, to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the Barents Euro-Arctic Region.
In 2005 his book Swedes at War 1914-1945 (co-written with Lennart Westberg) was nominated "Swedish History Book of the Year" in Sweden. Ten books on various historical subjects were nominated and Swedes at War 1914-1945 scored 5th place.
Since 2005 he is an elected member of the Swedish Military History Commission (in French: Commission Suédoise d'Historie Militaire, in Swedish: Svenska militärhistoriska kommissionen). He has been engaged in the development of the new Defense Museum in the town of Boden, which opened in 2006.
Gyllenhaal is a second lieutenant (conscript officer) in the Swedish Army Tank Corps.
He is also an elected member of The Swedish Writers' Union and has received a writing scholarship from this Union.
Books published: Kola - en guide ISBN 91-630-2240-0 published 1993 by AmuGruppen Norr AB, first Swedish guide about the Kola peninsula in present-day Russia, Slaget om Nordkalotten (The Battle of the North Calotte),co-author James F. Gebhardt. ISBN 91-88930-68-8, published 1999 by [Historiska Media], pocket edition 2001 ISBN 91-89442-26-1, Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 (Swedes at War 1914-1945),co-author Lennart Westberg. ISBN 91-85057-08-8, published in 2004 by Historiska Media, and again in 2006 in a revised and expanded paperback edition, ISBN 10: 91-85377-98-5,ISBN 13: 978-91-85377-98-5, again by Historiska Media.
