Bengt Danielsson was born on 6 July 1921 in Krokek, Östergötland län, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Denizde isyan (1962), Villervalle i Söderhavet (1968) and Gauguin in Tahiti: The Search for Paradise (1967). He was married to Marie-Thérèse Sailley. He died on 4 July 1997 in Tahiti.