Sven Lindqvist (1932–2019)

Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm, Sweden on March 28, 1932. He wrote for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter before becoming a cultural attaché to the Swedish embassy in Beijing. He received a Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1966. He wrote more than 30 books including A Proposal, Advertising Is Lethal, The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu, The Shadow, Land and Power in South America, Diary of a Lover, Diary of a Married Man, Bench Press, Desert Divers, Exterminate All the Brutes, Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land, and A History of Bombing. In 2012, he received the Lenin Prize. He died on May 14, 2019 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Exterminate All the Brutes… (més)