Education
She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in literature in Uppsala in 1988 with a dissertation on the Gustavian writer Johan Henric Kellgren.
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Carina Burman
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Her research has been focused on Swedish 18th and 19th century literature. Later production includes a critical edition of previously unpublished letters of the novelist and feminist pioneer Fredrika Bremer in two volumes (1996) and a biography of Bremer (2001). Palestina" (1995) and the poetic works of Erik Gustaf Geijer (1999).
Carina and Lars Burman have also edited Bremer"s "Grannarne" for the series of Swedish literature published by Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet (2000).
Burman"s novels have historical motifs, often taking the form of a pastiches. Her latest two novels, "Babylons gator" (2004) and "Vit som marmor" (2006) have the form of detective novels.
"Babylons gator: Ett Londonmysterum" (The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery), which borrows from English novels of the Victorian period, has Euthanasia Bondeson, a Swedish woman novelist-amateur sleuth visiting London, as its main character. In "Vit som marmor" (White as marble), Euthanasia Bondeson travels to Rome and solves a murder mystery in the Scandinavian artist colony.
