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8 unusual facts about Jan Guillou


Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden

Queen Cecilia Johansdotter is used as a character in a book by author Jan Guillou in 1998, where she was used to create the fictional queen, Cecilia Blanka.

Christian Skolmen

He has also performed at the Torshovteatret in Ondskapen (Guillou), and the Trøndelag Teater in Peer Gynt (Ibsen).

IB affair

The key persons leading to the exposure of the IB were journalists Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt and their original main source Håkan Isacsson.

Jan Guillou

In 1976, he wrote, "Zionism is in its foundation racist because the state of Israel is built upon an apartheid system, exactly like South Africa".

He also criticised those who said that the attacks were "an attack on us all" by stating that the attacks were only "an attack on U.S. imperialism".

I hennes majestäts tjänst (1994) (English translation: In Her Majesty's service)
The feminine "hennes majestät" in this case refers to the queen of Britain.

Karl Pauker

Swedish writer Jan Guillou has used K. V. Pauker as a pseudonym on the internet when he has, among other things, criticized Jewish influence in the early Soviet Union.

Name of Sweden

There is, however, an alternative hypothesis, first proposed by Ivar Modéer, and later popularized by the Swedish author Jan Guillou that the form is a loan from the Danish form of Sverike (Svearige).


Anders Hackzell

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

Bure kinship

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

The novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou compares in part with the early Bure family ancestry.

Där du andas

"Där du andas" ("Where you breathe") is the theme song for the movie Arn - Riket vid vägens slut (Arn - The kingdom at the end of the road), the second part of the trilogy written by Jan Guillou.

Folket i Bild/Kulturfront

The magazine arose to fame because of the scoop in the 1970s by Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt, who uncovered Informationsbyrån, run by the then ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party, and its connections to American and Israeli spy and intelligence organizations.


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