2006 in Sweden

Events from the year 2006 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson, Fredrik Reinfeldt

Events

• Love and War, an animated short film is released.
• Swegon Air Academy is founded.

Publications

• The Girl Who Played with Fire, novel by Stieg Larsson.
• 26 October – The Swedish Metapedia was founded by Anders Lagerström.

Deaths

• 20 January
• Sven Fagerberg, writer (born 1918)
• Dave Lepard, singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1980)
• 5 July – Gert Fredriksson, canoer, Olympic champion (born 1919).
• 27 July – Göran Printz-PÃ¥hlson, writer (born 1931)
• 17 September – Hans Berglund, canoer (born 1918).
• 4 October – Gunnar Åkerlund, canoer (born 1923).

See also

• 2006 in Swedish television

References