Peter Birro

Who is Peter Birro?

Peter Birro is a Swedish script writer, poet and musician.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Birro was an obscure poet who performed with the almost equally obscure Swedish band The Christer Petterssons. Birro's breakthrough as a writer was his script for the TV-series Hammarkullen directed by Agneta Fagerström-Olsson, which follows some people living in a low-income suburb of Gothenburg. It was widely praised for its humor and realism, although some of the real inhabitants of Hammarkullen were not amused.

Birro's first film script, Knockout, also directed by Fagerström-Olsson and telling the story of a washed up Swedish boxer lost in the Russian city of Murmansk, was a critical and box-office failure. His next film script, Bäst i Sverige!, directed by Ulf Malmros and telling the story of a young football player, was more favorably received. Birro has since then continued to write plays and television scripts.

His younger brother Marcus Birro is also an author and a poet.