Jörn Donner

Jörn Donner was born in Helsinki on 5 February 1933, the youngest son of the linguist and ethnographer Kai Donner and grandson of the linguist and politician Otto Donner. He published a first collection of short stories at eighteen, edited the review Arena, was a critic and reporter, then a filmmaker, awarded a prize at Venice in 1963 for his first film. Director of the Swedish Film Institute from 1978 to 1982, he received an Oscar in 1984 as producer of a Bergman film. He was a Finnish member of parliament, consul general in Los Angeles and a member of the European Parliament, and died in Helsinki on 30 January 2020.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaTo LoveAtt älskaJörn Donner · 1964Cinema
• NovelFar och son: en komediJörn Donner · 1984not translated into EnglishLiterature