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Draft:Christer Johfur

Hans-Christer Johfur, born 19 June 1958 in Falköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County is a Swedish author, musician and engineer.

Early Years. Johfur grew up in the residential area of Tåstorp in the northeastern part of Falköping. During his early years he was active as a football player for Tomtens IF's youth team and during his early teens he played badminton for Falköping's Badminton Club. He had also an early interest in ice hockey. Then, during his early teens, he also began to take an interest in music performance. His first electric guitar was a blonde Fender Telecaster with a Hagstrom amp. Throughout his teenage years, he then played in various constellations in the Falköping area.

Education. In addition to the regular Swedish elementary school, his educational background is a two-year mechanical engineering line, a two-year economics line, a bachelor's degree from the systems analysis line 120p with a focus on business administration and a marine engineer degree 90p with a focus on design and construction. During Johfur's university studies, he worked in parallel as a punch operator at Statistics Sweden and as a studio technician in a 16-channel recording studio, and during his engineering education he worked in parallel as a telemarketer of financial services.

Working life. His working life in his teens was marked by his mother's and father's professions. During the school holidays, Johfur worked at the then Post Office in Falköping as a forklift driver and sorter, at the Base Hospital and at the Falbygd Clinics in Falköping as a medical assistant. Johfur did his military service at F6 in Karlsborg, where he served as an Aircraft/Weapons Mechanic for the then fighter aircraft AJ37-Viggen. Before his military service, he worked as a workshop mechanic at an industry in Falköping and after his military service, he started working as an assembler at a hydraulic/pneumatic industry in Falköping. He also worked as a salesman of cleaning products for heavy consumers, as a substitute teacher at a middle school, again as a health care assistant at a hospital in Falköping and in a Post Office, and as a pizza baker at a restaurant in Falköping. After Johfur's Bachelor of Science degree, he started working as a programmer/systems engineer at a multinational company in Tumba, just south of Stockholm. During this time, he developed a computer system intended for handling complaints, which he also, in addition to Sweden, installed and started operation at subsidiaries in Denmark and Germany. After seven years, he instead started working as an IT consultant for a Swedish IT supplier in Solna. It was during this time that he went through a divorce. After two years as an IT consultant at the IT company, where his tasks consisted of traveling around to customers in Finland, Norway and Sweden and either doing new installations or software upgrades, and after a major organizational change, he decided to quit. Instead, he started writing music and in a studio in Hammarbyhamnen in Stockholm he recorded a number of songs that resulted in a CD.

The Time of Rootlessness. This was also the beginning of a period of hopelessness and rootlessness that would last for more than ten years. During this period, which Johfur described "as perhaps the worst period of my life that I do not want to wish on my worst enemy", he alternately lived in his apartment in Gothenburg, in Stockholm with his ex-wife and children, or with a friend in Stockholm, where he also occasionally helped out at his friend's relatively new IT company. During this period he was also active as a sound engineer in a baptist church and as a choir singer in a state church in Gothenburg. According to him, this difficult period was the basis for the composition of the song "Sea of Stillness". It was also during this period of time that he realized that his life could no longer go on like that. It was also, perhaps completely unexpectedly, during this stage that he met his future wife and started a family again.

Relaunch. It was also in connection with this, he learned from the Public Employment Service that there was a great need for bus drivers. So, after a few months of studies and exercises, he started working in the Gothenburg area. However, after six years, the family decided to move to Lysekil municipality. It was also there, or more precisely in Grundsund, that he got the inspiration to start writing his first novel. It has so far been published in four editions.

  • Den Ofrivillige Busschauffören, ISBN: 978-91-519-8818-4. First Swedish edition. Paper back. Released 2021.
  • The Involuntary Bus Driver, ISBN: 978-91-519-8819-1. First English edition. Paper back. Released 2023.
  • Den Ofrivillige Buss Chauffören, ISBN: 978-91-519-8820-7. Second Swedish edition. E-bok. Released 2024.
  • The Involuntary Bus Driver, ISBN: 978-91-519-8821-4. Second English edition. E-book. Released 2024.

According to information, a sequel is coming. So far, it has the working title "The Divided Nation". A specific release date has not been decided.

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