Bolette-Merete Sutermeister Petri (October 23, 1920 – 2018) was a Danish-Swiss writer of travel literature, considered as ″expert for the High North".
Her mother was Danish and her father was the owner of a pasta producer in Lucerne; she spent her first eight years of life in the ″villa Bleiche″ in Kriens; then she lived with her family in Lucerne; In 1935 she moved with her mother after her divorce to Copenhagen.
[1] She worked as a translator in Copenhagen and made archeological studies and expeditions to Greenland, Lapland and Spitsbergen.
In Longyearbyen, she created in the former coal mine of John Munroe Longyear a museum ″with facts about Svalbard″.
[1] Petri Sutermeister's books consist of stories that usually contain a trip /travel, for example, in a train or on a plane, containing and focus on landscape descriptions.