Agunnaryd Agunnaryd Agunnaryd is a locality and a parish situated in Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 220 inhabitants in 2010. Agunnaryd is chiefly associated with the industrialist Ingvar Kamprad, who founded IKEA (the "A" of which stands for "Agunnaryd"). It has one school, a kindergarten, a small supermarket named 'Matöppet', and four football teams. The little village has its own newspaper/newsletter, Agunnaryds Allehanda, that is mailed to inhabitants once a month. The close-by lake of Agunnarydsjön, located some 300 meters from the village church, is a haven for fishing and swimming. The lake is part of the Helge å river
Ingvar Ambjørnsen Ingvar Ambjørnsen Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (born 20 May 1956) is a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: "Utsikt til paradiset" (1993), "Fugledansen" (1995), "Brødre i blodet" (1996), and "Elsk meg i morgen" (1999). "Brødre i blodet" ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled "Elling", which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called "Beyond the Great Indoors". Born in Tønsberg and raised in Larvik, his debut novel was a semi-autobiography called "23-salen" ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to