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==Career== Kristina Lugn published eight collections of poems from 1972 with her debut ''Om jag inte''.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|title=Författaren Kristina Lugn är död|date=9 May 2020|website=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509144448/https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|archive-date=9 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> She also wrote drama and appeared in other media, for instance hosting the show Oförutsett which was broadcast on [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] in 1987. She hosted the show together with [[Jörn Donner]] and [[Bert Karlsson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2020/05/09/forfattaren-och-akademiledamoten-kristina-lugn-ar-dod|title=Författaren och akademiledamoten Kristina Lugn är död|website=svenska.yle.fi|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=12 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512020905/https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2020/05/09/forfattaren-och-akademiledamoten-kristina-lugn-ar-dod|url-status=live}}</ref> After the death of actor [[Allan Edwall]] in 1997, Lugn assumed the leadership of his small independent theatre [[Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra]] in [[Stockholm]], where she also staged several of her own plays.<ref name="auto"/> She was art director for the theatre until 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|title=Författaren Kristina lugn är död – blev 71 år gammal|website=Expressen|date=9 May 2020 |access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509221013/https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/forfattaren-kristina-lugn-ar-dod/|url-status=live}}</ref> Much appreciated by the Swedish audience, she touched on subjects such as loneliness, death and mid-life crises with irony, cynicism and black humour.<ref>{{cite news|title="Författarskapet är min enda räddning från mig själv"<!--quotes in original-->|publisher=[[Svenska Dagbladet]]|date=20 April 2014}} Retrieved 9 May 2020</ref> After 2011 it was run by her daughter, the author [[Martina Montelius]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Om Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra |url=http://brunnsgatanfyra.se/ |publisher=Brunnsgatan Fyra |access-date=9 May 2020|date=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617182302/http://brunnsgatanfyra.se/ |archive-date=17 June 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lisinski |first1=Tomas |title=Brunnsgatan Fyra med Lugn. Ny ledning. Kristina Lugn och Edwalls barn inviger med "Nattorienterarna" som hon skrivit själv |url=http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/brunnsgatan-fyra-med-lugn-ny-ledning-kristina-lugn-och-edwalls |publisher=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |access-date=24 February 2016 |date=14 October 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305113050/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/brunnsgatan-fyra-med-lugn-ny-ledning-kristina-lugn-och-edwalls |archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> Some of her poetry has been translated into Serbian by [[Eleonora Luthander]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Diktogram Dikter med sinnesglädje och estradpoetisk energi |url=http://www.svd.se/dikter-med-sinnesgladje-och-estradpoetisk-energi |newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |access-date=9 May 2020 |date=30 January 2008 |archive-date=15 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815204200/https://www.svd.se/dikter-med-sinnesgladje-och-estradpoetisk-energi |url-status=live |last1=Hedlund |first1=Tom }}</ref> Several of her plays have also been performed at Stockholm's [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]], including ''Tant Blomma'', ''Idlaflickorna'', ''Titta en älg!'' and ''Kvinnorna vid Svansjön''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/kristina-kunde-gora-poesi-av-diskborste|title="Helt oersättlig" – så minns vännerna Kristina Lugn|first=Erik|last=Olsson|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=9 May 2020|access-date=9 May 2020|via=www.svd.se|archive-date=10 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510091413/https://www.svd.se/kristina-kunde-gora-poesi-av-diskborste|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2002, Lugn hosted her own live talkshow for guests at Teater Brunnsgatan called ''Seg kväll med Lugn''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article10304364.ab|title=Seg kväll hur läskig som helst|website=Aftonbladet|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref> Together with author [[Henning Mankell]], Kristina Lugn wrote the novel ''Tjuvbadarna''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.albertbonniersforlag.se/forfattare/6588/kristina-lugn/|title=Kristina Lugn|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823034500/http://www.albertbonniersforlag.se/Forfattare/Forfattarpresentation/?PersonId=6588|archive-date=23 August 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>
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