Sigge Eklund

Sigge Eklund
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
Website
www.siggeeklund.se

Sigvard Viggo "Sigge" Eklund (born 21 April 1974) is a Swedish novelist, TV producer and screenwriter. He lives in Stockholm 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 and former porn star Fredrik Eklund.

He has published four 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.

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" (Kanal5) and in 2011 the Swedish airing of The Academy Awards.

In 2012 he started the podcast Alex & Sigges podcast (sv) together with Alex Schulman.

Novels

Film and television

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