Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren (born 26 July 1964, in Linköping) is a Swedish author, singer and musician. He won the August Prize in 2002 for the novel The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot.[1]

Carl-Johan Vallgren
Born	(1964-07-26) 26 July 1964 (age 58) Linköping
Occupation	novelist
Notable works	The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot

Personal life

Vallgren is of Finnish descent through his mother who was sent to Sweden as a Finnish war child during World War II.[2]

Bibliography

• Nomaderna (1987)
• Längta bort (1988)
• Fågelkvinnan (1990)
• Berättelser om sömn och vaka (1994)
• Dokument rörande spelaren Rubashov (1996)
• För herr Bachmanns broschyr (1998)
• Berlin på 8 kapitel (1999)
• The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot (2002)
• Kunzelmann och Kunzelmann (2009)
• Havsmannen (2012)
• Sviven, Eng: The Tunnel
• Skuggpojken, (2014) Eng: The Boy in the Shadows (2015)
• The Merman (2017)

References