Jan Berglin
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Jan Berglin (born 1960) is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet, but became known to a wider audience in 1995, when he started to draw for the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. His strips have been collected and republished in album form.
Berglin's strips, usually in four panels, tend to find their humour in a sometimes absurd mix of everyday situations and literary and philosophical references or reflections. When he was awarded the Alf Henrikson Prize in 2004, the jury's motivation spoke of his renditions of the "existence of the everyday human between ideals and matter".
In later years Berglin has acknowledged the input of his wife Maria, an artist and literary critic, within his strips by signing them "Berglins".
[edit] Albums
- Magnum Berglin: Samlade teckningar 1989-1999 (2001)
- Lagom Berglin (2002)
- Pytte Berglin (2003)
- Berglinska Tider (2004)
- Alla dessa månader med Jan Berglin 2005 (2004)
[edit] External links
- Berglin, comic strip, dynamic page on the website of Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet
- Jan Berglin, personal website
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