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Peter Englund

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Born: April 03 1957

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Peter Englund is a Swedish author and historian, and a member of the Swedish Academy since 2002.

Englund was born into a military family in Boden and studied caretaking for two years and then humanistic subjects for another two years in secondary school. He was then conscripted and served 15 months in the Swedish Army at the Norrbotten Regiment located in Boden. He was politically active in his youth and supported the FNL.

Englund studied archaeology, history, and theoretical philosophy at Uppsala University, completing a bachelor's degree in 1983, after which he began doctoral studies in History. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1989 for his dissertation Det hotade huset , an investigation of the worldview of the 17th century Swedish nobility. During his period as a doctoral student, he had also worked for some time for the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service , and the year before receiving his doctorate he had published the bestselling Poltava, a detailed description of the Battle of Poltava, where the troops of Swedish king Charles XII were defeated by the Russian army of Tsar Peter I in 1709.

Englund has received the August Prize and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize for Literature . He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 2002.

Englund writes non-fiction books and essays, mainly about history, and especially about the Rise of Sweden as a Great Power, but also about other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style, providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages, such as German and Czech.

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Peter Englund

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Books from Peter Englund

The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

Söndagsvägen - berättelsen om ett mord

Brev från nollpunkten: historiska essäer

The Battle that Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire

Ofredsår: Om den svenska stormaktstiden och en man i dess mitt

Tystnadens historia och andra essäer

Förflutenhetens landskap: Historiska essäer

Den oövervinnerlige: om den svenska stormaktstiden och en man i dess mitt

Stridens skönhet och sorg - 1914

Silvermasken : en kort biografi över drottning Kristina

Kungliga barn i tid och rum

Momentum: November 1942 – wie sich das Schicksal der Welt entschied (German Edition)

November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War

Paradoxmaskinen : Kritik 1990-2020

Jag minns : svenska folket berättar om sitt 1900-tal

Stridens skönhet och sorg 1916 : första världskrigets tredje år i 106 korta kapitel (Stridens skönhet och sorg, #3)

Poltava: berättelsen om en armés undergång

Noveller för världens barn 2008

Stridens skönhet och sorg 1918 : första världskrigets sista år i 88 korta kapitel (Stridens skönhet och sorg, #5)

Erik Lönnroth