Lars Gustaf Westman (16 April 1934 – 16 January 2021) was a Swedish writer and journalist.

Biography

Westman was the grandson of architect

Carl Westman Ernst Carl Westman (20 February 1866 – 23 January 1936) was a Swedish architect and interior designer. He was an early adopter of the National Romantic Style, but turned later to the neo-classical style of the 1920s. Biography Carl Westma ...

and the artist Elin Westman. He was, for many years, a journalist at ''

Stockholms-Tidningen ''Stockholms-Tidningen'' () was a Swedish-language morning newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1889 and 1984 with an interruption from 1966 to 1981. It was one of the major dailies in the country together with ''Dagens Nyheter'' and ...

'' and the magazine ''We''. He was the author of many books, including ''The Outer Isles: Life in the Outer Seaboard of Stockholm Archipelago'' and ''Air pollution and vegetation around a sulphite mill at örnsköldsvik, North Sweden: pollutants and plant communities on exposed rocks''. In 2012, he published the book ''Till Saltsjöbaden''. Other published books are ''På liv och död'' (2006), ''Om X-et och Saltsjöbaden'', and the children's book ''Springtjuven – ett Stockholmsmysterium''.

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Swedish male non-fiction writers 1934 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Swedish male writers 20th-century Swedish non-fiction writers 21st-century Swedish male writers 21st-century Swedish non-fiction writers {{Sweden-journalist-stub