Fagerholm, Monika

The Swedish-speaking Finnish author Monika Kristina Fagerholm grew up in the Helsinki suburb of Botby gård. Her father was a professor at the Helsinki University of Technology; her mother was a library assistant with a great passion for her job, she made it more glamorous that we are perhaps used to. Monika and her sister gave her film star status when she headed off to work with her hair done and her face made up, wearing her best clothes. Therefore, Monika Fagerholm has never thought of literature as anything but glamorous.