Carl-Johan Vallgren

Carl-Johan Vallgren 2009

Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren (born July 26, 1964 in Linköping ) is a Swedish author and musician .

Carl-Johan Vallgren grew up in Falkenberg and, at the age of twenty, went to India for a year to write a novel. When he returned with a half-finished manuscript, he received an advance payment from a Swedish publisher to complete the book. It was published in 1987 under the title Nomaden (not yet translated into German). The collection of short stories Far Away (1988) was created over a year in France and Spain. Then Vallgren lived in Lund and Malmö from 1988-1990 . In 1991 he moved to Madrid and lived there for a year before moving back to Northern Europe, this time to Copenhagen , where he lived until 1993. He spent the years 1993 to 2003 in Berlin and now lives in Stockholm . His books have been translated into 25 languages ​​and often deal with the limits of human life.

In the contract the player is about a gambling addict who in St. Petersburg loses Year's Eve 1899/1900 his soul in the card game in the Devil and as a result thereof is immortal and wanders through the entire century. For Mr. Bachmann's brochure is a kind of letter to a fictional person in which the author viciously goes on about Swedish society, its media and its culture, which, paradoxically, has brought this book great success and several editions in his home country.

He won the August Prize in 2002 for his novel The Story of an Outrageous Love . In it Vallgren tells the story of the deformed and deaf-mute, but telepathically gifted dwarf Hercule Barfuss, who spanned the period from the beginning of the 19th century until shortly before the First World War . The book was a bestseller with more than 300,000 copies sold in Sweden. He published his first thriller Shadow Boy in 2013 in Sweden under the pseudonym Lucifer . In Germany, this and its sequel appeared pigs under his real name.

As a rock musician, Vallgren has released various recordings; in the German movie Big Girls Don't Cry , he appeared in a supporting role.

Works

• 1987: Nomaderna
• 1988: Langta bort
• 1990: Fågelkvinnan
• 1994: Berättelser om sömn och vaka
• 1996: The Player's Contract , 2005 ( Document rörande spelaren Rubashov ), from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach. Claassen, Munich. ISBN 978-3-548-60535-7
• 1998: For Mr. Bachmanns brochure , 2005 ( För herr Bachmanns broschyr ), from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach. Claassen, Munich. ISBN 978-3-548-60544-9
• 1999: A barbarian in Berlin: the city in 8 chapters , 2000 ( Berlin på 8 kapitel ), from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach. Quadriga, Berlin. ISBN 3-88679-341-9
• 2002: The story of a monstrous love , 2004 ( Den vidunderliga kärlekens historia ), from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-518-46015-3
• 2009: Kunzelmann & Kunzelmann , 2009 ( Kunzelmann & Kunzelmann ), from the Swedish by Angelika Gundlach, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-458-17460-8
• 2012: Havsmannen
• 2013: Schattenjunge ( Skuggpojken ), from the Swedish by Christel Hildebrandt, Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-453-26946-0
• 2016: pigs. A Danny Katz thriller. ( Svinen ), from the Swedish by Susanne Dahmann, Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-453-26959-0

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

I provin   SE 44 10/01/2004 (1 week) Livet   SE 20th 11/22/2007 (1 week)

• 1996: Klädpoker med djävulen
• 1998: Easy listening for masochister
• 2001: Kärlek and andra katastrofer
• 2003: 2000 mil, 400 nätter
• 2004: I provinsen
• 2007: Livet
• 2010: Nattbok

criticism

• Karsten Kruschel : “'The Story of an Outrageous Love' is the most intelligent novel on the subject of telepathy since Robert Silverberg 's 'It dies in mir'; Incidentally, Carl-Johan Vallgren also deals with the topic of the superman, is able to please lovers of historical novels, gives the banned reader a short course on the basics of sign language and also provides a veritable love story that was the bestseller of 2002 in Sweden . "" ... a novel that is only superficially about crippling and disability. In fact, it rarely happens that a book is so faithful to what its title says. This love between Hercule and Henriette is really monstrous, and not just because the lover is considered a monster by those around him. Carl-Johan Vallgren has accomplished the feat of keeping this book kitsch-free, which cannot be taken for granted in view of the strong feelings that always prevail. He does not shy away from strong scenes and lets his hero experience abysses, which could hit the soul of the more delicate reader. Even the scenes in which Hercule reads and manipulates the souls of other people are inherently logical and have none of the hollow pathos that otherwise accompanies many superhuman stories. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verlag release of Suhrkamp -Verlages [1]
2. ↑ Entry in the IMDb
3. ↑ Chart sources: SE
4. ↑ Cf. Das Science Fiction Jahr 2005 , ed. by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-52068-8 , pp. 1040f., 1043

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl-Johan Vallgren in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://vallgren.nu/