“the U.S. is the great mass murderer of our time. The wars against Vietnam and its nearby countries alone claimed four million lives. Without a minute of silence in Sweden”
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Jan Guillou
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a French-Swedish author, journalist and convicted spy. Guillou has been accused by some commentators of being an agent of the KGB Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret, immoral and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informat…
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business · French-Swedish author and journalist · writer · journalist · autobiographer · screenwriter · businessperson · presenter · also Jan Guillou, Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou, Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou, Guillou
Born 17 January 1944 · Q315773
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2026· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Yahoo: Jan Guillou’s ‘The Great Century’ Being Adapted as Epic Drama Series (EXCLUSIVE)
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2016· 2 entries
World Screen: Patrick Nebout to Adapt Jan Guillou’s Hamilton Books
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Awarded Axel Liffner scholarship (2016).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Lenin Award (Sweden) (2014).
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And at the prize ceremony Cecilia Cervin said this about him: "You have remained "cheeky", or refractory as Jan Myrdal usually calls it, i
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2011· 1 entry
Guillou published the first part of a new series meant to depict the 20th century, from 1901 to 2001
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2004· 2 entries
And her story continues in Fienden inom oss ("The Enemy Within Us") in 2007 and Men inte om det gäller din dotter ("But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter") in 2008, a novel which also saw the return of Carl Hamilton
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Guillou returned to contemporary crime novels meant to depict the world of Western politics and law in the wake of 9/11 and the war on terror, mainly focusing on the new character Eva Johnsén-Tanguy, a high ranking polic
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2003· 2 entries
Guillou was still listed as a terrorist by the US government, because of the IB affair, but managed to get a visa for attending the Academy Award ceremony
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Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards and won three Swedish Guldbagge Awards including Best Film
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2002· 1 entry
The public commission published a 3,000-page report where research about the IB affair was included
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Author of the Year (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
Guillou began writing a medieval trilogy about the Crusades
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Swedish Crime Writers' Academy (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Guillou published Coq Rouge, the first novel about his fictional Swedish military spy Carl Hamilton
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1984· 5 entries
Awarded Aftonbladet TV Prize (1984).
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Awarded Stora Journalistpriset (1984).
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“Nie było nic większego niż to, aby wiara stała się rozumna. Świadectwem tego, do czego ślepa i nierozsądna wiara prowadziła, była wszak wojna w Ziemi Świętej…”
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“Kiedy dobywasz swojego miecza – nie myśl, kogo masz zabić. Myśl, kogo masz oszczędzić.”
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“Wolność okazywała się nie tylko czymś tak oczywistym, jak powietrze i woda. Trzeba było nauczyć się jej.”
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1981· 1 entry
And is heavily autobiographical in depicting the author's teenage experience of an abusive step-father and a sadistic upperclass boarding school
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1977· 1 entry
Guillou wrote, "I'm an optimist, I believe that Israel will cease to exist prior to Armageddon"
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1976· 3 entries
Two employees of Sveriges Radio contacted Guillou at Folket i Bild/Kulturfront with a story of a colleague that had been recruited by a CIA officer in Stockholm
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Wrote, "Zionism is in its foundation racist because the state of Israel is built upon an apartheid system, exactly like South Africa"
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“Zionism is in its foundation racist because the state of Israel is built upon an apartheid system, exactly like South Africa”
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1975· 1 entry
And they assert that, at this time, "the Baath regime is clearly popular and among the most stable in the Arab World" (pp
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1974· 1 entry
(see the IB affair), but the writing was put on hold until the mid 80's when he was inspired to the plot of the novel when encountering the Norwegian security police in Oslo (an encounter that is featured in the novel wh
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1973· 3 entries
Guillou has been a strong critic of the Swedish Security Service
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Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, a left-wing magazine, published a series of articles written by Guillou and Peter Bratt, revealing a Swedish secret intelligence agency called Informationsbyrån ("The Information Bureau" or IB
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When he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret, immoral and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB)
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1967· 1 entry
Guillou had a series of meetings with KGB representatives
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-01-17.
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1941· 1 entry
As the son of a member of the French Resistance and head of the offices of Free France in Stockholm, and later became a journalist for the French nationwide daily newspaper L'Équipe
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