Jan Guillou

Jan Guillou

Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɑːn ɡɪˈjuː], French: [ɡiju]; born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Guillou has received more than 295,295 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jan Guillou is the 1,530th most popular writer (down from 1,156th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 166th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Writer.

Jan Guillou is most famous for writing the internationally successful "Hamilton" series of spy novels. The series follows the story of Carl Hamilton, a Swedish secret agent who works for the Swedish security police, SÄPO, and later for the international intelligence agency, Coq Rouge. The first book in the series, "Coq Rouge," was published in 1986 and has been translated into several languages.