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Born February 3, 1948 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died October 5, 2015 (aged 67) • Gothenburg • Sweden
Notable Works “Bergsprängaren” • “Faceless Killers” • “I Die, but My Memory Lives On” • “The Dogs of Riga” • “The Pyramid” • “The Troubled Man”

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