Gabriel Setterborg

(May 6, 1939 –-)

Lars Erik Gabriel Setterborg discovered science fiction very early, and was one of those in Gothenburg encouraged by librarian Roland Adlerberth both to read more of it and, after the first issue of the prozine Häpna! appeared in early March, 1954, to form an sf club. He heeded this advice, with two friends from school founded Club Cosmos the same month, and so was one of those instrumental in launching Swedish fandom as well as the actual founder of its now oldest existing sf club. Together with Stockholm fan Leif Helgesson, Setterborg in 1957 published a single issue of Three Towns Fanzine, but on the whole has been neither a fanzine publisher nor a convention arranger; though a constant convention goer both in Sweden and abroad ever since the 1950s, he initially wanted to support himself as a writer, and published both an sf novel in 1958, an sf magazine serial in 1960-61 and numerous wild west and other genre adventure novels and stories, but gradually switched to primarily translating. He is still working actively and still attends both Swedish conventions, occasional British conventions and Worldcons.