Gunnar Mattsson

Kaj Gunnar Wolter Mattsson (5 May 1937 – 9 August 1989) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and journalist.

[1] Mattsson rose to fame as a result of his book Prinsessan.

The book was translated into some thirty languages, including English, it was a bestseller in Finland[2] and was filmed as A Time in the Sun in Sweden.

Suffering from alcoholism, he committed suicide at the age of 52 in Helsinki.

[2] This article about a Finnish writer or poet is a stub.