Vibeke Olsson

She was born in 1958 in Lidingö to Jan Olof Olsson and Margareta Sjögren [sv], both journalists and writers. She was raised in Stockholm.^[1] Her older sister Elisabeth also became a journalist at Svenska Dagbladet. Her father died suddenly in 1974 on Walpurgis Night at the family's summer home on the Bjäre Peninsula [sv] of Scania.^[2] The following year, Olsson made her debut as a novelist as a 17-year-old. Her first novel, Ulrike och kriget, focused on the story of a teenage girl in 1939 Munich who sees Adolf Hitler as her country's saviour.^[3] A sequel, Ulrike och freden, was published the following year.^[4]

She published Hedningarnas förgård in 1982, set in 250 AD of the Roman Empire. The next installment in the series, Kvarnen och korset, was published two years later.^[5] By then, Olsson was also a Baptist pastor and married to Bo Casselbrant.^[6] In 1990, Olsson published Den vackraste visan, about her older sister who had recently died.^[7] She received the Ivar Lo Prize [sv] in 2016.^[8] She received the Stig Sjödin Prize [sv] in 2018.^[9] She received the Moa Award in 2022.^[10]

• Olsson, Vibeke (1975). Ulrike och kriget (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
• — (1976). Ulrike och freden (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
• — (1982). Hedningarnas förgård (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
• — (1984). Kvarnen och korset (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
• — (1990). Den vackraste visan (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.