Frimansson, Inger

Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her baccalaureate in Jönköping in 1965. She won a number of writing competitions while still at school, including the national school competition "The Little Noble Prize" in 1963, which allowed her to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She worked as a volunteer at the Jönköpings-Posten local newspaper and later trained as a journalist at Gothenburg University. She was editor-in-chief of the National Association for Persons with Intellectual Disability magazine between 1985 and 1997, and she was a journalist at various local newspapers. Between 1985 and 1997, she worked at the Swedish book trade organ Svensk Bokhandel. Frimansson has been a full-time author since 1998. She lives in Bergvik, Södertälje, with her partner Jan. They have two daughters.