Lars Sund.

A photograph of the Finland-Swedish author Lars Sund is published in a new book about Finländarnas historia i Sverige (The history of Finns in Sweden), Appell Förlag (2025).

Editorial work Jarmo Lainio, Graphic design Fredrika Siwe, Photo editor Susanna Mälarstedt and Ola Kellgren.

More than 700,000 people of Finnish origin live in Sweden.

Among them are Swedish Finns, Finnish Swedes, Tornedalers, Kvens and Lantalaiset, Finnish Roma and Finnish war children, as well as descendants of the Forest Finns.

Together, they form a large and multifaceted mosaic of minorities with the common denominator that they have kinship and historical ties to Finland.

In The History of Finns in Sweden, a number of researchers and writers paint a broad and comprehensive picture of their background and status during the period 1995–2025.

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Lars Sund, Stockholm 2017

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All the portraits of Lars Sund are available at the Opale Agency.

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Varg Gyllander.

A photograph of the Swedish journalist, writer, crisis manager and lecturer Varg Gyllander is published in the Swedish magazine Chef. (2026, March 19) to illustrate an article about "How to handle a crisis".

Chef. is a monthly management and business magazine published in Stockholm. Read the full article in Chef.

Varg Gyllander is the author of several crime novels and feel-good novels, and has been translated into many languages, including Italian, German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, etc.

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Varg Gyllander, Stockholm 2026

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All the portraits of Varg Gyllander are available at the Opale Agency.

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Liza Alexandrova-Zorina

A photograph of the Russian writer and journalist Liza Alexandrova-Zorina has been published in the Swedish magazine Klass (n° 4/2025).

The magazine Klass aims to highlight working-class literature and literature with a class perspective.

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina is born in Russia in 1984.

Imperiets barn (Children of the Empire) (2023) was her first book and original publication in Swedish.

In the spring of 2025, it was followed by the independent and in-depth reportage book De livegnas land (The Land of the Serfs), for which she won the Grand Prize for Journalism and was named Storyteller of the Year in November 2025 with the following motivation: With total presence and a curious gaze, she guides the reader into a world that most of us do not even see. Even though it is right in front of our eyes.

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Liza Alexandrova-Zorina, Stockholm 2023

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All the portraits of Liza Alexandrova-Zorina are available at the Opale Agency.

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