Inger Maria Alfvén (24 February 1940 – 26 July 2022)[1][2] was a Swedish author and sociologist from Solna in Stockholm County.

[3] Her books depict existential and moral conflicts such as inherited gender roles, love, lifelong friendship, and loneliness.

[4] In 2002, Alfvén made her debut as a playwright with the play The Rainbow's Root (Regnbågens rot), which is about three sisters' lives and development during the last decades of the last century.

[citation needed] Alfvén was married for the first time in 1962–1980 to medical licentiate Mikael von Heijne (born 1941), the second time from 1985 to 1991 to the author Lars-Olof Franzén (born 1936), and the third time from 1993 to the psychiatrist Johan Cullberg (born 1934).

[citation needed] She was the daughter of physics professor and Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén and a grandniece of composer Hugo Alfvén.