Biography

John Dahlgren is a Psychologist and a member of the Swiss Psychologist Federation (FSP). He has been working as a marketing director at a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland since 1998.

Born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden, he grew up close to the vast and untamed nature of Scandinavia and became influenced at an early age by the Nordic sagas, fairytales and mythologies. This environment triggered his imagination and inspired him, to later become a fiction/fantasy writer. He has studied creative and fiction writing at Oxford University where he got high praise from his tutors. He is also a screenwriter and composer.

During his school years, Dahlgren's favourite subjects were: music, literature and drama. At this stage he also became more seriously interested in writing and took part of every year's short-stories contest arranged by the school.

After finishing college, he put his writing interests aside and enrolled at a medical faculty. After four years of studying medicine, he discovered he was more interested with the human mind rather than the pathological conditions of the body and switched to psychology. He received his Master of Science degree in the year 2000.

He never lost his love for writing and besides his research work; he is now engaged in several book projects, for both younger readers and adults.

In his free time, he enjoys playing the piano, reading, and travelling. Dahlgren lives in Neuchatel, Switzerland, with his wife and two children.