Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)
Sample of authors
Oates, Joyce Carol
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2024)
Sample of authors
Ohlsson, Kristina
The Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson was born and grew up in Kristianstad as one of six siblings. As a child she was sickly, read a lot and already during her teens became interested in foreign and security politics. After matriculation in 1998, she left her home town to study in Stockholm, Göteborg and Israel. After she graduated from university with majors in Political Science and International ...