Kristina Lugn was born in Tierp and grew up in Skövde where her father, Major-General Robert Lugn, served in the Skaraborg Armoured Regiment, and her mother, Brita-Stina, was a lecturer.[8]
Career
Kristina Lugn published eight collections of poems from 1972 with her debut Om jag inte.[9] She also wrote drama and appeared in other media, for instance hosting the show Oförutsett which was broadcast on SVT in 1987. She hosted the show together with Jörn Donner and Bert Karlsson.[10]
After the death of actor Allan Edwall in 1997, Lugn assumed the leadership of his small independent theatre Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, where she also staged several of her own plays.[9] She was art director for the theatre until 2011.[11] Much appreciated by the Swedish audience, she touched on subjects such as loneliness, death and mid-life crises with irony, cynicism and black humour.[12] After 2011 it was run by her daughter, the author Martina Montelius.[13][14]
Some of her poetry has been translated into Serbian by Eleonora Luthander.[15] Several of her plays have also been performed at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, including Tant Blomma, Idlaflickorna, Titta en älg! and Kvinnorna vid Svansjön.[16] In 2002, Lugn hosted her own live talkshow for guests at Teater Brunnsgatan called Seg kväll med Lugn.[17]
Together with author Henning Mankell, Kristina Lugn wrote the novel Tjuvbadarna.[18]
She won awards including the Dobloug Prize in 1999, the Selma Lagerlöf literature prize in 1999, the Bellman prize in 2002, the Gustaf Fröding Society's lyrics prize in 2007, and the Övralids prize in 2009.[19]
När det utbröt panik i det kollektiva omedvetna (When Panic Broke Out in the Collective Unconscious) 1986
Titta det blöder (Look It's Bleeding) 1987
Det vackra blir liksom över (The Beautiful Things Is Kind Of Left Out; American title, "The Hour of the Dog"; performed in New York and Edinburgh) 1989
Tant Blomma (Aunt Flower; American title, "Aunt Blossom"; performed in New York) 1993
Idlaflickorna (The Idla Girls) (American title, "The Old Girls at Lake Garda"; performed in New York) 1993
Silver Star (performed in New York) 1995
De tröstlösa (The Inconsolable) 1997 (written with Allan Edwall)
Titta en älg (Look A Moose) 1999
Stulna juveler (Stolen Jewels; performed in New York) 2000
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