Gösta Ågren

Sven Gösta Ågren (3 August 1936 in Nykarleby – 24 June 2020 ) was a Finland-Swedish author who won the Finlandia Prize in 1988 for .

His parents were the farmer and worker Rudolf Filemon Ägren and Olga Elisabet Rosenblad. After various jobs, including as a metalworker in Jakobstad (1953–54) and a library clerk at the University of Helsinki library (1959–60) , Ågren studied directing at the Stockholm Film School from 1964 to 1966 and taught at Kalix Folk High School in Sweden in 1967. He was known for his left-wing sympathies, which can be seen in his autobiographical work concerning the rural "proletariat." In addition to a prize from the Swedish Literature Society in Finland in 1971, he was active in writers' organizations, serving on the board of the Society of Swedish Authors in Finland for twenty years and as secretary of the Ostrobothnian Authors' Association starting in 1975

He published poems, essays and biographies. Among his other work, he wrote and directed for television, with works including the TV drama Hushåll (1966)