Amanda Sofia Svensson (born 5 June 1987 in Arlöv) is a Swedish author. She is the daughter of journalist Per Svensson and his wife Ann-Sofie Svensson, she grew up in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

. She started writing at a young age and at seventeen she reached the final of Lilla Augustpriset. She got her education at writing at Fridhems folkhögskola in

Svalöv Svalöv () is a locality and the seat of Svalöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 3,633 inhabitants in 2010. It is around north of Malmö. Sports The following sports clubs are located in Svalöv: * Svalövs BK Division 4 is the si ...

between 2006 and 2008. And studied from 2011 literature science and French at Lunds University. Amanda Svensson debuted as an author in 2008 in the published Hey Dolly. Her second book ''Välkommen till den här världen'' was nominated to Augustpriset in 2011. Om 17 August 2012, Svensson presented an episode of the

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show

Sommar i P1 ''Sommar i P1'' (''Summer on P1'') is one of the most popular shows on Swedish radio. It has been broadcast every summer since 29June 1959, originally as ''Sommar'' on P3 and since 1993 on P1. About Each 90-minute-long programme in the series ...

.Amanda Svensson Sommar i P1
Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 26 September 2015.

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*2008 – ''Hey Dolly'' , Norstedts *2011 – ''Välkommen till den här världen'' *2014 – ''Allt det där jag sa till dig var sant''

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Living people 1987 births Swedish women writers People from Burlöv Municipality {{Sweden-writer-stub