[1] Siv Cedering was born 30 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle in rural Överkalix, Norrbotten County, Sweden, the second of four children.
[3] Ms. Cedering won the Best Book of the Year Award in Sweden for her first novel Playing in the Pig House.
Another of her novels, Oxen, was made into the 1991 film The Ox starring Stellan Skarsgård and directed by Sven Nykvist, Ingrid Bergman's longtime cinematographer.
[4] Ms. Cedering's poetry and prose have appeared in over 200 anthologies, textbooks, and magazines, including Harper's, Ms., Science, and The New Republic.
While gaining success as a poet and fiction writer, Ms. Cedering expressed herself in the visual arts, mastering the techniques of both painting and sculpture with a skill that led to her work being exhibited first in the Hamptons and later throughout the United States.