Theorin, Johan

Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his family in 1964. He finds his inspiration on the island of Öland where he used to spend his summer holidays as a child. Theorin completed upper-secondary school in Lindesberg in 1983. After a year of military service followed he was an exchange student at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1984–85 before he went on to study journalism at the Södra Vätterbygden folk high school in Jönköping in 1985–87.