Louise Boije af Gennäs

Boije af Gennäs best-selling novel, the semi-autobiographical Stjärnor utan svindel (Stars Without Vertigo) from 1996, is based on the author's relationship with the prominent feminist Mian Lodalen.

The couple's bourgeois life amid Stockholm's jet set lurches toward the wild side, however, when the lesbian radical feminist Kaja enters the scene, the friendship between the two women erupts into a passionate love affair.

Born into the Swedish branch of the noble (frälse) Boije af Gennäs [sv] family, she was raised in Bromma, Stockholm until the age of 14, when her parents moved to France.

She then attended the Lundsbergs boarding school in Storfors until the age of 18, when she moved to the United States to study literary history at Wellesley College.

She was then involved in a relationship with author Mian Lodalen [sv][2] before marrying businessman Carl-Erik Lagercrantz, presently the CEO of Vargas Holding and a co-founder of Northvolt, in 1999.