 He is also one of his country's most highly regarded literary translators, having published a Swedish-language version of J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and also having translated a two-volume edition (issued in September 2008) of the plays of Henrik Ibsen.From 1982 to 1989, Klas Östergren was married to Swedish actress, Pernilla Wallgren, who subsequently continued her career using the name Pernilla Östergren.They became the parents of a daughter, Agnes; and following their divorce and Pernilla's marriage to director Bille August, she appeared, using her new professional name, Pernilla August, in two films for which Östergren wrote the screenplays.