Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril

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Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (2010)

Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (born March 2, 1966 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish writer and literary critic .

Life

Ahndoril became interested in the theater from an early age . She worked at the Helsingborg State Theater and in independent theater groups. She began studying at the Theater School in Stockholm , but quickly realized that she did not want to be an actress and dropped out of school in 1992. Ahndoril is a PhD student at Stockholm University working on a literary thesis on the poet Fernando Pessoa .

As a writer she made her debut in 2003 with the novel Stjärneborg (German The King's Astronomer ), a successful work about Tycho Brahe's life. The novel is part of a three-part series about people who influenced history in different ways. The second part Birgitta och Katarina was published in 2006 and is about the life of Birgitta from Sweden . In 2009 the series was completed with the novel Mäster . Here she wrote about the socialist agitator August Palm . Mäster received good reviews and was praised for the richness, warmth, color and rhythms of language that convey a new image of Johanna and August Palm.

Ahndoril has a Swedish father and a Portuguese mother. She is married to the writer Alexander Ahndoril and wrote Hypnotisören , Paganinikontraktet and Eldvittnet with him under the pseudonym Lars Kepler . In addition to her writing, she writes literary reviews for Göteborgs-Posten and Dagens Nyheter . In 2010 she was nominated by the Vänsterpartiet for the Reichstag election. Ahndril withdrew her name because she was in a longer creative phase.

She currently lives in Stockholm with her husband and three daughters .

Works

Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril with her husband Alexander Ahndoril at the Gothenburg Book Fair in September 2010
  • The King's Astronomer (Swedish Stjärneborg ), 2004, ISBN 3-548-60460-9 .
  • Birgitta and Katarina , 2006
  • Hypnotisören , 2009 (together with Alexander Ahndoril under the pseudonym Lars Kepler)
  • Fatteners , 2009
  • Paganinikontraktet , 2010 (together with Alexander Ahndoril under the pseudonym Lars Kepler)
  • Eldvittnet , 2011 (together with Alexander Ahndoril under the pseudonym Lars Kepler)

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Meisterlich , Aftonbladet of August 21, 2009, accessed on August 14, 2010 (Swedish)
  2. The Ahndoril couple behind the pseudonym Kepler ( Memento from March 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )