Lundberg, Ulla-Lena

The Finnish-Swedish author Ulla-Lena Lundberg spent the first years of her life on the island of Kökar in the Åland archipelago, a place she returns to again and again in her books. Her father, who was a vicar, died early so her mother, a school teacher, had to bring up Ulla-Lena and her older sister Gunilla on her own, and they settled in the Swedish-speaking part of Finland.