Sample of authors
Lövestam, Sara
The author, radio presenter, linguist and language teacher Sara Maria Kristina Lövestam was born in Uppsala. She now lives with her partner in a southern suburb to Stockholm.
Her family moved from Knutby to Lugnvik near Östersund. 1989 the family moved to Sigtuna and 1989-90 they spent half a year living in Zimbabwe. After secondary school, Lövestam moved to Stockholm where she attended the Ry...
Literary figures
Þóra Guðmundsdóttir
Gender: Female
When we meet her in Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s first crime novel, skilful lawyer Þóra Guðmundsdóttir is 36 years old and the single mother of a son Gylfi, 16, and a daughter Sóley. She is divorced from her husband Hannes, but later embarks upon a relationship with the German police officer Matthew Reich. He is blond with long hair, high cheek bones and walnut-shaped blue eyes. And he is also the part-o...