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'''Peter Birro''' (born 19 July 1966 in [[Gothenburg]]) 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 (named after the suspected assassin of Swedish Prime minister [[Olof Palme]], [[Christer Pettersson]]). Birro's breakthrough as a writer was his script for the TV-series ''Hammarkullen'' (1997) 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Björn Afzelius priset |url=http://www.mikaelwiehe.se/afzeliuspriset.htm |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=www.mikaelwiehe.se}}</ref> 

Birro's first film script, ''Knockout'' (2000), 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!'' (English title: ''We can be heroes!'', 2002), 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spektra |date=2008-09-20 |title=”Upp till kamp” vann i Prix Italia |language=sv |work=Svenska Dagbladet |url=https://www.svd.se/a/62e89486-e945-3168-876d-4ae7b57c705f/upp-till-kamp-vann-i-prix-italia |access-date=2022-09-01 |issn=1101-2412}}</ref> 

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

Birro lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife Christina and their family. He has one daughter, one son and two stepsons.

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*{{cite encyclopedia | title=Peter Birro | encyclopedia=[[Nationalencyklopedin]] | language=Swedish | url=http://www.ne.se/peter-birro | accessdate=10 May 2010}}
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