Irmelin Sandman Lilius

Rut Irmelin Sandman Lilius (born 14 June 1936) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer.

[1] Among her best-known works is the large chronicle about the fictive town of Tulavall on the south coast of Finland, which she has described in different times and from the point of view of different people, in more than a dozen books.

She has also written several self-biographical works (some together with her sister Heddi), as well as novels with a heroine based on her daughter.

In 2003, the first volume of her biography of her husband was published, with the title Sjutusen år (English: "Seven Thousand Years");[1][2] the fourth and final volume was published in 2017.

[5] Sandman Lilius was also on the IBBY Honour List for 1974[6] and 2002.