Anna Laestadius Larsson
{{Short description|Swedish author and journalist}}
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Anna Gerd Laestadius Larsson ({{née|Larsson}}; born 6 April 1966){{cite web|url=http://www.laestadiusfriends.se/LMV-us/SlaktLs-us/0002/2598.htm|title=Laestadius Larsson, Anna Gerd|publisher=Laestadius Friends|accessdate=24 July 2023 |language=sv}} is a Swedish journalist and historical novelist. She made her debut in 2013 with Barnbruden (The child bride), the first part of a trilogy about 18th-century Swedish women. In 2017, she published the successful novel Hilma: En roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint (Hilma: A novel about the enigma that was Hilma af Klint). Laestadius Larsson has also been editor of the Swedish magazine Amelia as well as a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet.{{cite web|url=https://www.piratforlaget.se/anna-laestadius-larsson/fakta-om-anna-laestadius-larsson/|title=Anna Laestadius Larsson|publisher=Piratförlaget|accessdate=24 July 2023 |language=sv}}{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/832585/summary|title=Hilma: En roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint by Anna Laestadius Larsson (review) |journal=World Literature Today |publisher=University of Oklahoma|year=2019|accessdate=24 July 2023|issn=1945-8134|page=104 |doi=10.1353/wlt.2019.0153 |s2cid=245662782 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.fonstret.se/artikelarkivet/forfattarmote/anna-laestadius-larsson/|title=Anna Laestadius Larsson|publisher=Fönstret|author=Ullsten, Maria|accessdate= }}
Biography
Anna Gerd Larsson was born in Leksberg near Mariestad on 6 April 1966. After first working as a reporter for Aftonbladet and Expressen, she was an editor at Aftonbladet Kvinna. In 2007, she went on become a columnist at Svenska Dagbladet where she served for almost 11 years.{{cite web|url=http://www.resume.se/nyheter/tidskrifter/2007/05/09/amelia-adamos-nya-redaktio/|title= Amelia Adamos nya redaktionschef |publisher=resume.se|author=Helander, Magnus|date=9 May 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141020002846/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/tidskrifter/2007/05/09/amelia-adamos-nya-redaktio/ |accessdate=24 July 2023 |archive-date= 20 October 2014 |language=sv}}
Laestadius Larsson was inspired to embark on writing historical novels when she took her nine-year-old daughter to visit Drottningholm Palace. Commenting on a portrait of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, the guide explained that she was only 15 when she was forced to marry the king's brother and that she had kept a diary. Laestadius Larsson bought the nine-volume diary from an antique dealer and based her novel Barnbruden on its 5,000 pages of intrigue. Her novel Kurtisanen (The courtisn, 2019) was based on letters written by Charlotte Eckerman (1759–1790) while on a study trip to Italy.
Her highly acclaimed novel Hilma (2017) received additional interest when Hilma af Klint's paintings were exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York.{{cite journal|title=The artist through a glass darkly|journal=Approaching Religion|year=2018|author=Swartz Larsson, K. I.|volume=8 |pages=100–102 |doi=10.30664/ar.69643 |doi-access=free}}
Personal life
Novels
- Barnbruden, Piratförlaget, 2013 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0394-6}}
- Pottungen, Piratförlaget, 2014 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0420-2}}
- Räfvhonan, Piratförlaget, 2015 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0454-7}}
- Hilma – en roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint, Piratförlaget, 2017 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0489-9}}{{cite web|access-date=9 December 2017|language=sv-SE|title=Hilma – en roman om gåtan Hilma af Klint |url=http://www.piratforlaget.se/bocker/hilma-en-roman-om-gatan-hilma-af-klint/|work=Piratförlaget}}
- Kurtisanen, Piratförlaget, 2019 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0527-8}}
- Svårmodets döttrar, Piratförlaget, 2020 {{ISBN|978-91-642-0744-9}}
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Category:21st-century Swedish novelists
Category:21st-century Swedish journalists
Category:21st-century Swedish women writers