Jujja Wieslander (née Bergkvist; born 12 June 1944 in

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) is a Swedish author of

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, best known for her fictional character of

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which was adapted into the

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film '' Mamma Moo and the Crow'' (2008). She was awarded the Expressens Heffaklump prize in 1993 and the

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in 2005.

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