Jan Myrdal - porträtt av en författare och provokatör (2006)

The author Jan Myrdal is probably one of Sweden's most controversial cultural personalities. Some hate him, some love him, everyone admits he is a provocateur. A provocateur who loves the torch. As colleague Jan Guillou wrote when a small-minded, old-fashioned Jan Myrdal was suddenly awakened from his lethargy by the threat of being expelled from the PEN club (due to his statements about the massacre in Tiananmen Square). Jan Myrdal was born in 1927, as the eldest child - and only son - of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, the intellectual architects of the modern Swedish welfare state. He had a lot to live up to - and eventually rejected everything.