Lars Gyllenhaal
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Lars H. F. Gyllenhaal (born July 9, 1968) is a Swedish author, mainly writing on military history and especially about Swedes in various 20th century wars. He is the only child of former press counsellor to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Herman L. Gyllenhaal and childrens' nurse Monica R. Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son.
After Swedish upper secondary school education, Gyllenhaal studied French at the University of Savoy in France, and Russian at a language institute (MISI) in Moscow, USSR.
Gyllenhaal began writing as a freelancer for military history journals and newspapers. During 1992-94 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula in North-West Russia, to teach languages (English and Swedish) and assist during twin city cooperation.
After returning to Sweden he, together with his wife, was recruited by Centek, an internationally and locally active industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek from 1994 and left on his own accord in 2000, to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the Barents Euro-Arctic Region.
In 2005 his book Swedes at War 1914-1945 (co-written with Lennart Westberg) was nominated "Swedish History Book of the Year" in Sweden. Ten books on various historical subjects were nominated and Swedes at War 1914-1945 scored 5th place.
Since 2005 he is an elected member of the Swedish Military History Commission (in French: Commission Suédoise d'Historie Militaire, in Swedish: Svenska militärhistoriska kommissionen). He has been engaged in the development of the Defense Museum in Boden, which opened in 2006.
Gyllenhaal is a second lieutenant (conscript officer) in the Swedish Army Tank Corps.
He is also an elected member of The Swedish Writers' Union and has received a writing scholarship from this Union.
[edit] Works
- Kola - en guide ISBN 91-630-2240-0 published 1993 by AmuGruppen Norr AB, the first Swedish-language guide about the Kola Peninsula in Russia
- Slaget om Nordkalotten (The Battle of the North Calotte), with co-author James F. Gebhardt. ISBN 91-88930-68-8, published 1999 by Historiska Media, pocket edition 2001 ISBN 91-89442-26-1
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 (Swedes at War 1914-1945), with co-author Lennart Westberg. ISBN 91-85057-08-8, published in 2004 by Historiska Media
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 revised and expanded. Paperback edition published by Historiska Media 2006, ISBN 91-85377-98-5, ISBN 91-85377-98-5.
