Peter Kihlgård

Peter Kihlgård, born 10 April 1954 in Örebro, is a Swedish author, playwright and translator.

Kihlgård works across literary genres with a variety of artistic expressions. He is the author of acclaimed novels such as Fadder Teiresias vår (1988), the semi-autobiographical Strandmannen (1992), the experimental Anvisningar till en far (1996) and the popular love story Kicki & Lasse (2007), as well as of plays, prose poetry and short stories.

Kihlgård is also the Swedish translator of two Salman Rushdie novels.

Translations

 * 2016 – Två år, åtta månader och tjugoåtta nätter (Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights), by Salman Rushdie
 * 2018 – Det gyllene huset (The Golden House), by Salman Rushdie