Sigvard Viggo "Sigge" Eklund (born 21 April 1974) is a Swedish

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, TV producer and screenwriter. His books have been sold in 16 countries, and his podcast "Alex & Sigge's podcast" is the biggest in Sweden with over 500,000 listeners a week. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two sons, and daughter. Sigge Eklund was born in

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, as the son of economist

Klas Eklund Klas Eklund (born 16 July 1952)''Nordic Labour Market Policies and Labour Market Research'', Stationery Office Books, , p. 191 is a Swedish economist and author. Early life and education Eklund was born in Kvarngärdet, Uppsala as the son of the ...

and the brother of author, real estate broker

Fredrik Eklund Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, 1977) is a Swedish real estate broker, former IT entrepreneur, reality television star, and author. He is best known for starring in the Bravo reality series, ''Million Dollar Listing New York'' for all of its nine ...

, star of Bravo (American TV network) TV show

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. Sigge Eklund is also a recurring guest on

. He has published five novels at Albert Bonniers förlag. His best-known novel is '' Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa'' ("It's 1988 and it just began snowing"), an autobiographical story about growing up as the son of a famous father. His latest novel ''Into the labyrinth'' has been sold in 16 countries, including France, Germany, China, Brazil, and Japan. He is the host of the

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radio show "Buying and Selling" together with his brother

. Apart from the novels, he has published two collections of essays ("Time" and "Room", with Alex Schulman), and one book of prose poetry ("Life's Small Pleasures"). In 2004, he wrote the short film ''Celebrating Lennart'' (SVT/SFi) and was a co-writer of the Swedish TV show ''

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'' (Kanal5). In 2008 he created and hosted the talk show ''Frånvarande'' (TV8), in 2010 he produced the reality show ''Lite sällskap'' (Kanal 5), and in 2011 he produced the Swedish airing of

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. In 2012 he started the Swedish language podcast Alex & Sigges podcast with Alex Schulman. It has been the biggest podcast in Sweden since and has won several awards ("Best Podcast of Sweden" 2012-2016). In 2014, he won the Swedish Radio Prize for "Best newcomer". 2018 he moved to the U.S. and has since lived in New York and Los Angeles.

Books

*''Synantrop : en kärlekshistoria.'' Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1999. *''Den sista myten.'' Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2002. *'' Det är 1988 och har precis börjat snöa.'' Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2005. *''Varulvsvalsen.'' Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2007. *''In i labyrinten.'' Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014. *''Tid.'' Stockholm: Bookmark Förlag, 2015. *''Rum.'' Stockholm: Bookmark Förlag, 2017. *''Livets små njutningar.'' Stockholm: Brombergs Förlag, 2020.

Film and television

*''Emmas analys'' Creator and producer. Kanal 5, 1996. *''Celebrating Lennart'' Screenwriter. SVT/SFi, 2004. *''

'' Screenwriter. Kanal 5, 2005. *''Frånvarande'' Creator and host. TV8, 2008. *''Lite sällskap'' Producer. Kanal 5, 2010. *''Nittileaks'' Writer. Kanal 5, 2011. *''

'' Producer. Kanal 9, 2011. *''Alla är fotografer'' Format and director. SVT, 2013.

References

Bravo TV's brothers Fredrik and Sigge Eklund get their own radio showSigge Eklund named the most powerful blogger in Sweden

External links

* 1974 births Living people Writers from Stockholm Swedish male writers Swedish-language writers Swedish bloggers Swedish people of German descent Male bloggers {{Sweden-writer-stub