Elisabeth Östnäs (born 1974 in
Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
[Wedding, Gunilla. "Skräck i 1800-talets Lund", Skånska Dagbladet, 19 October 2012.]), is a Swedish writer. She made her debut in 2012 with the horror novel ''Feberflickan'', which takes place in Lund in the 1890s.
Her historical youth fantasy trilogy ''Sagan om Turid'', earned her the
Slangbellan Award for best new Swedish writer of children's and youth literature.
["Lundaförfattare prisad", Norra Skåne, 4 November 2016. Page 8.][Wedding, Gunilla. "Hur känns det att Sagan om Turid är över?", Skånska Dagbladet, 7 November 2016. Page B2] ''Sagan om Turid'' has also been adapted as a radio drama for
Swedish public radio.
["Vikingasaga i barnradion", Skånska Dagbladet, 25 October 2018. S. B2.]
Östnäs holds degrees in the history of religion and creative writing, and has studied writing at Skrivarakademin in Stockholm and Lunds författarskola.
References
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Living people
Swedish fantasy writers
Swedish horror writers
Swedish women writers
1974 births
Women science fiction and fantasy writers