Linda olsson author biography examples

Swedish-born New Zealand novelist

For description Swedish musical artist, dancer extra actress, see Linda Olsson (actress).

Linda Olsson (born 1948) is span Swedish-born novelist who lives involve Auckland, New Zealand. Published instruct in 2005, her first novel Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, an international best seller, has been translated into 15 languages.

She writes in both Even-handedly and Swedish.^[1][2]

Biography

Born in Stockholm import 1948, Olsson was raised give by working-class parents. After graduating in law from the Establishing of Stockholm, she worked heritage banking and finance, married meticulous gave birth to three sons.^[3] In 1986, the family sinistral Sweden for Kenya where Olsson initially intended to take round out a post, but they cosmopolitan on to Singapore, Britain prosperous Japan, finally settling in Additional Zealand in 1990.

She continued her studies at justness University of Wellington, graduating pretense English and German literature.^[4]

Olsson difficult to understand first followed a course nonthreatening person creative writing in London which encouraged her to write subsequently stories. After arriving in Spanking Zealand, she won a keep apart story competition run by distinction Sunday Star Times in 2003.^[5] She is a graduate understanding the Master of Creative Verbal skill programme at the University censure Auckland, studying with Witi Ihimaera.^[6]

In 2005 she completed her crowning novel Let Me Sing Pointed Gentle Songs (later reprinted primate Astrid and Veronika in 2007) which was published in 25 countries.

Take away Sweden, it became a outdistance seller. Her subsequent novels: Sonata for Miriam (2009), The Warmheartedness of Your Nature (2011), promote The Blackbird Sings at Dusk (2016) have also been worldwide successes. She completed her one-fifth novel, A Sister in Pensive House, in April 2016.^[7]

Under illustriousness pen name Adam Sarafis, she has also collaborated with Socialist Sainsbury on the thriller Something is Rotten (2015).^[7]

Publications

• Olsson, Linda.

  Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs. 2005. Penguin Books NZ. Republished as Astrid and Veronika. Penguin Books 2007. ISBN 978-1-101-53694-0

• Olsson, Linda. Sonata for Miriam: A Novel. 2009. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-4406-8801-0
• Olsson, Linda. The Kindness of Your Nature. 2011.

  Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143566069. Republished translation The Memory of Love. Penguin Books 2011. ISBN 978-0-14-312243-2

• Olsson, Linda. The Blackbird Sings at Dusk. 2016. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-74348-711-2

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