Claes Britton

I was born and raised in downtown Stockholm where I've lived all my life, except for several periods throughout my childhood and youth when my family lived first in London, then in Los Angeles, where my father, who is an immunologist and infectious disease professor, served as visiting professor. I went to school in both these places and learned English naturally from a young age, which is the reason I've been able to work professionally with English as a second language.

I trained as a journalist at Stockholm’s College of Journalism and then immediately started working for Sweden’s leading daily Dagens Nyheter, in 1986. I enjoyed instant success, but also just as quickly became a controversial figure. I never really liked the world of journalism and daily publishing, and when the chance came along to join the Rosenudde publishing house as a staff writer and editor for the new men’s fashion magazine Café, I jumped at it. This is where I met my wife and business partner to be, Christina. Together, we formed BrittonBritton and Stockholm New magazine in 1991. Through our work, I’ve been able to explore my lifelong passion for visuals and fashion alongside my writing.

In addition to working as editor, copywriter and creative director for Stockholm New and BrittonBritton, I’ve continued to write ”on the outside”, but rarely for magazines or newspapers nowadays. I published my first book, a sports book for adolescents, back in 1991 and have since contributed to a fair number of very different Swedish and international books, mainly to do with design and fashion. I published my own first major literary book in 2004, entitled Sekelskifte i Stockholm (Turn of the Century in Stockholm) which was published by Norstedts. It's an anthology of six short story format texts published throughout the 1990s - plus five new non-fiction stories on the theme of mass psychosis, all more or less dealing, in a very literary non-fiction way, with Stockholm during the 1990s and early 2000s (www.bokus.com).