Johanna Holmström (born 1981) is a

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author. Holmström was born in

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and lives in

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. Her first publication was the short-story collection ''Inlåst och andra noveller'' (2003), from which the short story "Inlåst" ('Locked Up') was nominated for the Swedish Radio Short-story Prize in 2004. This was followed by the short story collection ''Tvåsamhet'' (‘Twosomeness’, 2005). Holmström's first novel was published in September 2007: ''Ur din längtan'' ('Out of your Longing'). In 2009 she won the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize for her third short-story collection ''Camera Obscura'', a connected series of stories focused on young

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in Helsinki. Since then, she has published ''Asfaltsänglar'' ('Asphalt Angels', 2013), ''Hush Baby'' (2015) and ''Själarnas ö'' (''Island of Souls'', 2017). ''Själarnas ö'' tells the stories of three of the inmates of a women-only mental hospital on the island of

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near

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Bibliography

* ''Inlåst och andra noveller'' (2003) * ''Tvåsamhet'' (2005) * ''Ur din längtan'' (2007) * ''Camera obscura'' (2009) * ''Asfaltsänglar'' (2013) * ''Hush Baby'' (2015) * ''Själarnas ö'' (2017)

Sources

* http://www.finlit.fi/fili/en/books/asphalt-angels/ 1981 births Living people People from Sipoo Finnish women novelists Finnish writers in Swedish Writers from Uusimaa {{finland-writer-stub