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Lars Norén

Died in 2021

Lars Norén was born in Stockholm in 1944 and grew up in Genarp, a village in Scania, where his family settled when he was six and where his father ran a hotel; he took the material of his theatre from it and returned alone to Stockholm at fifteen. A poet first, published at nineteen, he then wrote for the stage and was regarded as the most important dramatist of his country. A director at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, he headed the national touring theatre from 1999 to 2007 and the Göteborg people's theatre from 2009 to 2012. He died in 2021.

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