Magnus Magnusson
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| Born: | August 21, 1948 |
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| Nationality: |  Swedish
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Biography
Life and career
After he graduated from Wargentinsskolan (1967 cohort) in Ôstersund he studied at Uppsala University. He later studied pedagogy at Karlstads universitet (2001 cohort).
He worked as a lecturer at Stockholm University, where he mainly taught the subject Special Education.
By 2010 he had met Lia Kalinnikova and a bit later he started to work for NARFU (Northern Arctic Federal University, Department of linguistics and international communication (Arkhangelsk, Russia)). In 2017 ha became guest lecturer in Swedish at the Moscow State University until he retired in the summer of 2020.
Interest in comics
Magnus Magnusson wrote a Phantom story in 1972: "The Thousand Tigers" (Swedish: "De tusen tigrarna"). It was based on a synopsis by Lennart Hartler and deals with why there are tigers in Bangalla, home country of the Phantom.
He began collecting notes and comic clips from Swedish newspapers and weekly magazines, in addition to various comic books. He used his knowledge of Mandrake to write "Mandrake - Magikern" in 2003, but no Swedish publishing house was willing to publish it.
In 2011 he contributed an article to the book "Lee Falk – Storyteller" and in 2016 he wrote "Mandrake the Magician: The magical wonder of a generation" for "The Hidden Kingdom of Murderers: Sundays 1935–1937" by Titan Comics.