Sigrid Combüchen

Sigrid Combüchen (born 16 January 1942) is a Swedish novelist, essayist, literary critic and journalist.

Sigrid Combüchen made her debut at the age of eighteen with the novel Ett rumsrent sällskap (1960).

She worked in journalism and on her academic degree before she returned to fiction seventeen years later with the novel I norra Europa (In Northern Europe) and then Värme (Warmth) in 1980.

Over a period of twenty years Combüchen has written three novels studying the change of mentality in national life.

Her latest novel Sidonie & Nathalie (2017) is a story of two French refugees surviving in the Swedish countryside during 1944–45.