The parents were artistically educated, and the home was characterized by "fantasy, art, literature and popular science walks".

She enjoyed the youth gang that gathered at Götaplatsen and visited the popular dance clubs.

[4] She was given her first writer's assignment as a twelve-year-old when the uncle at the Gothenburg-Tidningen needed a translator to the series' text boxes.

An aunt and her husband became deputy parents when she returned to Gothenburg after the family's move to San Francisco.

Early on, she was set to become a writer and during high school,[5] Lärn won an essay competition with a Frankrikesa as the first prize.