Elisabeth Åsbrink

Author and Playwright, Sweden

Elisabeth Åsbrink is an awardwinning Swedish author and playwright. Her books include 1947: When Now Begins (2017), And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain (2020) and My Beautiful Big Hatred: A Biography of Victoria Benedictsson (2023).

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Written by Elisabeth Åsbrink

A sepia photograph of a woman from the 19th century, sitting on an ornate wooden chair, wearing a ruffled dress with buttons.

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Stories and literature

The real Miss Julie

Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom, and took her own life. Then Strindberg stole it

Elisabeth Åsbrink