Jörgen Peterzén
(May 30, 1941 – March 9, 2018)
Swedish fan who initially moved to Stockholm in the late 1950s to study engineering and became a member of the Scandinavian SF Society already in 1960. In may 1962 he became the club's second president, and in 1963 published the first three issues of his fanzine Fregna, a fourth following in 1965. He was also a member of Sam J. Lundwall's short-lived Hyborian Legion club (also known as Legio de Hyborealis) and in 1972 was one of the founders of the Stockholm Tolkien Society (Forodrim). Having bought a mimeograph to publish his fanzine, he quickly became the go-to printer for several other fan publishers in Stockholm, and for the rest of the 1960s produced a large number of fanzines, not least most issues of the leading SF-Forum.
Bored by his job and with ambitions to instead work as a writer and editor, Peterzén quit and returned to school sometime after the mid-1960s. In 1970 he began working as a handyman at Askild & Kärnekull, the publishing house where Sam J. Lundwall had just been hired as sf editor, and when co-owner Jan Askild left, Peterzén followed him to Lindqvist, a small publishing house Askild had bought from its previous owner. Here Peterzén became an editor, publishing both sf and, predominantly, other entertainment fiction. After a few years, he moved back to Askild & Kärnekull, where he persisted in introducing work of sf and fantasy interest, among other authors Stephen Donaldson and later Frank Herbert as well as Robert Jordan, to Swedish readers. Though Askild & Kärnekull was bought by a larger publishing house in 1980, had its name changed in 1983 and finally was integrated with the new parent company, Natur och Kultur, Peterzén remained with the company until his retirement. He also worked as a translator, and wrote a book about magic (Magi, 1971, revised 1982). From 1972, when he had co-founded Forodrim, Peterzén was predominantly active in Tolkien fandom, but occasionally also attended sf conventions and retained many friendships in fandom.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1986 -- Nasacon 7
- 1998 -- Upsala SF-möte VII
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