Peter Kihlgård, born 10 April 1954 in

Örebro Örebro ( , ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of the Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers in ...

, is a Swedish author, playwright and translator. Kihlgård works across literary genres with a variety of artistic expressions. He is the author of acclaimed novels such as (1988), the semi-autobiographical (1992), the experimental (1996) and the popular love story (2007), as well as of plays,

prose poetry Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form, while preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis, and emotional effects. Characteristics Prose poetry is written as prose, without the line breaks associ ...

and short stories. Kihlgård is also the Swedish translator of two

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...

novels.Peter Kihlgård
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Bibliography

*1982 – *1982 – *1985 – *1988 – (poetry) *1988 – *1989 – *1990 – *1992 – *1995 – *1996 – (with Lars Göran Persson) *1996 – *1998 – *1998 – *2001 – *2005 – *2007 – *2008 – *2015 –

Translations

*2016 – (''

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights ''Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights'' is a fantasy novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie published by Jonathan Cape in 2015. Plot The novel is set in New York City in the near future. It deals with jinn Jinn ( ar, , ...

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*2018 – (''

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''), by Salman Rushdie

References

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