Anna Laestadius Larsson

Laestadius Larsson has also been editor of the Swedish magazine Amelia as well as a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet.

[5] Laestadius Larsson was inspired to embark on writing historical novels when she took her nine-year-old daughter to visit Drottningholm Palace.

Commenting on a portrait of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, the guide explained that she was only 15 when she was forced to marry the king's brother and that she had kept a diary.

Laestadius Larsson bought the nine-volume diary from an antique dealer and based her novel Barnbruden on its 5,000 pages of intrigue.

Her novel Kurtisanen (The Courtisn, 2019) was based on letters written by Charlotte Eckerman (1759–1790) while on a study trip to Italy.