INGER ALFVÉN
INGER ALFVÉN (1940-2022) was born in Stockholm. She graduated with a degree in social work in 1964 and subsequently worked as a curator and childcare assistant. Alongside her writing career, she was also a supervisor in Literary Composition at the University of Gothenburg.
She was one of Sweden's most widely read and successful authors. Her books depict existential and moral conflicts such as inherited gender roles, love, lifelong friendship and loneliness. Her breakthrough novel is generally considered to be Dotter till en dotter (Daughter to a Daughter) (1977).
In 2002, Inger Alfvén also made her debut as a playwright with the play Regnbågens rot (The Core of the Rainbow), which is about the lives and development of three sisters during the last decades of the previous century.
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