Göran Tunström

Göran Tunström
Tunström around 1960
Born(1937-05-14)14 May 1937
Karlstad, Sweden
Died5 February 2000(2000-02-05) (aged 62)
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationWriter
Period1960–2000
GenreBiography, novel, poem, short story
Literary movementModernism
Notable works
Spouse
(m. 1964)
Children1

Göran Tunström (14 May 1937 – 5 February 2000) was a Swedish author. He grew up in Sunne, Värmland County. Tunström's style is personal and intimate, and has a clear autobiographical tone. Although active as an established author for nearly four decades, it was particularly after his Juloratoriet (The Christmas Oratorio) was adapted as a movie in 1996 that he became widely known to the (Swedish) public. He participated in the Oslo International Poetry Festival.

He was married to artist Lena Cronqvist, and was the father of theatre and film director Linus Tunström.