Lars
Gustafsson

Lars Gustafsson, born in central Sweden in 1936, poet, philosopher, novelist and one of Sweden’s most prolific intellectuals, spent a year in the city in 1972 as a guest of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin program – and subsequently became one of the central figures in German-Swedish cultural exchange. For this he received the Goethe Medal in Weimar in 2009.

His best-known novels include “Death of a Beekeeper.” In 2011, secession-Verlag published “Gegen Null. Eine Mathematische Phantasie.” The publication prompted contact between the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Lars Gustafsson – who studied mathematics as well as literature, philosophy and sociology – and led to a one-month guest residency at PIK.