Peter Birro (born 19 July 1966 in
Gothenburg
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) is a Swedish script writer, poet and musician.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Birro was an obscure poet who performed with the almost equally obscure Swedish band The Christer Petterssons (named after the suspected assassin of Swedish Prime minister
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until as ...
,
Christer Pettersson
Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson (23 April 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1989 he was convicted of the murder in district court but ...
). Birro's breakthrough as a writer was his script for the TV-series ''Hammarkullen'' (1997) directed by Agneta Fagerström-Olsson, which follows some people living in a low-income suburb of Gothenburg. It was widely praised for its humor and realism, although some of the real inhabitants of
Hammarkullen
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were not amused.
Birro's first film script, ''Knockout'' (2000), also directed by Fagerström-Olsson and telling the story of a washed up Swedish boxer lost in the Russian city of
Murmansk
Murmansk () is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far Far North (Russia), northwest part of Russia. It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Ko ...
, was a critical and box-office failure. His next film script, ''Bäst i Sverige!'' (English title: ''We can be heroes!'', 2002), directed by Ulf Malmros and telling the story of a young football player, was more favorably received. Birro has since then continued to write plays and television scripts.
His younger brother
Marcus Birro is also an author and a poet.
Birro lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife Christina and their family. He has one daughter, one son and two stepsons.
References
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Swedish male writers
1966 births
Swedish people of Italian descent
Living people
Writers from Gothenburg
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