Swedish Authors

We're going to tell you something about our authors here in Sweden.

I hope you already have heard or read something about this famous Swedish writer. She had written many kind of books for children like Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking), Emil i Lönneberga (Emil in Lönneberga) . Her name is Astrid Lindgren and she was born on the 14th of November  1907 in Vimmerby. This is where the story in her books take place. Astrid has two children, one daughter named Karin and one son named Lars. Astrid died 28 January 2002. She died with the age of 94 years old in Stockholm.

Now we're going to tell you about a Swedish writer named Stieg Larsson. His real name is Karl Stig-Erland Larsson. He was born 15 Agugust of 1954. And he died on 9 November 2004. He was 50 year old. Stieg was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is very famous about his work against racism. Stieg has written a serie of books, called Millenium, the books that are in is "Män som hatar kvinnor", "Flickan som lekte med elden" and "Luftslottet som sprängdes". This books are thrillers.

The next writer we're gonna tell you about is Liza Marklund. Her real name is Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund. She was born 9 th September 1962 in Pålmark near Piteå in Norrbotten. She is writer but also a journalist and UNICEF-ambassador since November 2004. Her first thriller was "The Blaster" who came out 1998 and with that book she established like one of one of Scandinavias most selling author. In 2010 she wrote the thriller "Postcard Killers" with the American writer James Patterson, that you maybe have read. Some of her books have been filmed like "The Blaster" and "The Paradise".

Liza Marklund has  three children which two of them and with her husband Mikeal Aspeborg, and their name are Axel and Amanda. Her oldest daughter Annika Marklund is an actor.