Kurt Gustafsson

Biography

Kurt G Gustafsson was born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, as the only child of Kaj and Hellevi Gustafsson, then recent immigrants from Finland, and grew up bilingual. He studied journalism at Journalisthögskolan i Stockholm (Stockholm College of Journalism) and worked successfully as a newspaper reporter for eight years, before turning to corporate communications. While working at the corporate communications department of Sandvik in Sandviken, Sweden, in the late 1970s and early 80s he was an enthusiastic member of the local amateur theater association for several years, playing among other pa…