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Christian Gripenvik

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Born

in Sweden

Website

http://www.bokbocken.com

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Genre

Fantasy, Fiction, Horror

Influences

Jules Verne (for waking me up)
Tolkien (for pointing the way)
Dostojevsk ...more

Member Since

September 2014

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Born in the south of Sweden (Skåne) his family moved to Stockholm when he was 5 years old.

He didn't learn to read until he was 7 years old, but quickly compensated for the lost time. The first book he read was Jules Verne's "80 0000 leagues under the sea" at the age of 8. Personally he had asked for Dickens's "oliver Twist, but it was unavailable, which made him write his own story about Oliver T and another favourite Oliver: Cromwell, in the "book" "The Whispering Wall", now long lost in it's original form, but recreated in a lovecraftian setting a few years back.

At 10, Professor Tolkien entered his life, and that was that. Once the possibilities of fantasy was made clear, he stubbornly refused to leave them and can still be found lurking ...more

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	Bortom portalen 2 by Oskar Källner (Goodreads Author), Jenny Green, Anna Jakobsson Lund (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den andres val by Christian Gripenvik (Goodreads Author), Simon Väderklint (Narrator) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broder själ, syster flamma 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flykten från träsket by Christian Gripenvik (Goodreads Author), Malin Forsman (Illustrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Brother Soul, Sister Flame by Christian Gripenvik (Goodreads Author), Suzanne Martin Cheadle (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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