[2] His first poetry collection was published in 1973, Ditt hjärta är ett rött tåg.

[1] Rolf Aggestam grew up in Nockeby in Bromma,[1] but eventually moved to Näsåker in Ångermanland in the 1980s.

[4] Aggestam studied at the University of Lund in the 1960s, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, and then worked as a journalist in Malmö.

[2] During his lifetime, Aggestam was known first and foremost as a poet and translated poems by, among others, Matsuo Bashō and Walt Whitman, published respectively in 1974 and 1983.

[3] The last poetry collection of Aggestam, Mitt i det veka livet, was published posthumously in 2021.