Sigrid Combüchen. Shortly after the War her family moved to Sweden. She is a Swedish writer and literary critic and has so far published seven novels, a collection of essays and a biography (on the Norwegian novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

 1920 Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

). She received the 2004 Selma Lagerlöf Prize

Selma Lagerlöf Prize

The Selma Lagerlöf Prize is a Swedish literary prize awarded to a Swedish author writing in the spirit of Selma Lagerlöf who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was founded by the Sunne Municipality in 1983 and has been awarded annually since 1984. Recipients...

 and 2007 she received an Honorary Doctor in Literature at Lund University

Lund University

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, Sweden, for her literary merits.

Biography

Sigrid Combüchen made her debut at the age of seventeen with the novel Ett rumsrent sällskap, 1960. She returned to fiction seventeen years later with the novel I norra Europa, 1977. Her best-known novel so far is Byron, 1988. It was translated into English the same year and to German in 1991, and was also translated to five more languages. She was editor of the magazine Allt om Böcker for a number of years and writes at times for the feuilleton in daily newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen.

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