A social sciences graduate of the University of Lund (southern Sweden) Christer Wigerfelt was also a university professor. He taught journalism, several years, at the University of Göteborg.
He published several books and essays on social issues and constantly acted as a columnist in Swedish newspapers. For almost three decades he has led the culture and society magazine Alba, also founded by him, in Göteborg.
It has been an honor for me to have been able to publish articles in that magazine since 1998.
Beyond his journalistic and literary activity, Christer Wigerfelt was a great friend of Romania. He visited our country in 2006.
„Two things I particularly liked in Romania, apart from the people I met there: the fortresses of Sighişoara and Poenari. It was hard for me to understand how the Romanian people managed to keep its Latin vein, in this corner of Europe, so isolated from the rest of European Latinity. I began to understand this after visiting your country,” Wigerfelt said short after his visit here.
Romania lost a good friend. Unfortunately, we don’t have too many in Sweden, not even among the intelligentsia.
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