Sunne Municipality

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**Sunne Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Sunne Municipality Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Sunne
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	County	Värmland County
	Province	Värmland
	Area Rank	1,296 km² 74th of 290
	Population Rank (2006)	13 568 162nd of 290
	Density	10.5/km²

Sunne is a Municipality in the province Värmland, in west central Sweden. Its seat is in Sunne, with 4,850 inhabitants.

This town straddles the short river connecting Övre Fryken (Northern lake) with Mellan-Fryken (Southern lake). Printing and packaging are significant industries in Sunne, with plants for companies such as Tetra Pak and Miller Graphics, the local college provides a specialist course in printing technology.

Sven-Göran Eriksson, the English football team's coach, has a house on the outskirts of the town. Sunne was the home of the Nobel Prize in Literature winner Selma Lagerlöf after whom the town's two hotels are named. In the Summer there is a large music festival. Also the prominent Swedish author Göran Tunström was born and raised in Sunne, as well as the painter Tage Åsén who made the cover paintings for two of his books about Sunne and who currently is working with 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.

Karlstad, which has an international airport, is the nearest large city.