Lars Gyllenhaal
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Lars Herman Folke Gyllenhaal (born July 9, 1968) is a Swedish author, mainly writing on military history and especially on Swedes in 20th century wars. He is the only child of former press counselor to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Herman Gyllenhaal and children's nurse Monica Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son and one daughter.
Gyllenhaal studied French at the University of Savoy in France, and Russian at a language institute in Moscow, USSR.
Gyllenhaal began writing as a freelance journalist for military history journals and newspapers. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia to teach English and Swedish.
He returned to Sweden in 1994 and was recruited by Centek[1], an industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek until he left on his own accord in 2000 to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the history of the Barents Region.
In 2005 his book Swedes at War 1914-1945 (co-written with Lennart Westberg) was nominated "Swedish History Book of the Year". Since 2005 he is an elected member of the Swedish Military History Commission. He has been engaged in the development of the Swedish Defense Museum in Boden, which opened in 2006.
Gyllenhaal has done research work for several documentary films on WWII such as "Krieg in der Arktis" (War in the Arctic) by Jens Becker and Ralf Daubitz and the prize-winning "Blood Road" and "Under a Rusty Star", both by Gunilla Bresky.
Gyllenhaal is an elected member of The Swedish Writers' Union and has received a writing scholarship from this Union.
[edit] Works
- Kola - en guide published 1993 by AmuGruppen Norr, ISBN 91-630-2240-0
- Slaget om Nordkalotten (The Battle of the North Calotte), with James F. Gebhardt. ISBN 91-88930-68-8, published 1999 by Historiska Media (first paperback edition 2001) ISBN 91-89442-26-1
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 (Swedes at War 1914-1945), with Lennart Westberg. ISBN 91-85057-08-8, published 2004 by Historiska Media
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 revised and expanded. Paperback edition published by Historiska Media 2006, ISBN 91-85377-98-5, ISBN 91-85377-98-5.
- Victims, Victors (as the book's editor) by Roman Kravchenko-Berezhnoy, published 2007 by The Aberjona Press, ISBN 0-9717650-6-5
