Per Insulander

(March 22, 1951 –)

Per Insulander became active in Swedish fandom during his late teens in the 1960s, joining the SFSF club in Stockholm and shortly thereafter starting his news fanzine Degler, which lasted only for a few months. Within SFSF he came up with the idea of creating an English-language version of the club fanzine SF forum, which he published with two issues, Forum International, within the auspices of the club and with both translated and original material, then in 1969 was the editor of SF forum itself. He went on to co-chair the SF•72 convention in Stockholm with Ulf Westblom, With the extremely active Westblom he then went on to edit a fannish fanzine, DNQ, which lasted for 7 issues, six in the early 1970s while the 7th and final much belatedly was published in 1981. In the meantime, Insulander, with John-Henri Holmberg, had edited two further issues of SF forum in 1977 and before then. also with Holmberg, chaired the 1976 Stockholm ScanCon. From 1976 until 1979 Insulander, Holmberg and John Ågren were continuously on the board of the SFSF club in Stockholm, which during this period had its own facilities, was open to members daily and started an sf book shor; fron 1979, their engagement in the club lessened as instead they in 1978 started a company dedicated to punlishing sf, both in its own right and as an editorial service for other publishers. During the 1979-1987 period, the company published the Nova science fiction magazine as well as around 50 books under its own imprint and a further around 30 issued by other publishers. Operations ceased in 1988, when all three became entangled in other pursuits; Per Inslander went on to gain his M.D. degree and became a cardioglogist with the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and has been only marginally active in fandom since.