Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish author and actor (born 1935)

Lasse Strömstedt

Swedish writer (1935–2009)

Folke Lars-Olov Strömstedt, better known as Lasse Strömstedt, was a Swedish writer who wrote of and about his own life in prison and drug abuse. Strömstedt was born in Gävle in 1935. He was a casual laborer whose working life was frequently disrupted by imprisonment. After 1971…