Background
Born in Stockholm, she grew up in the suburbs of Rågsved and Vårberg.
Born in Stockholm, she grew up in the suburbs of Rågsved and Vårberg.
She caused a scandal in 1997 when she included unflattering descriptions of two famous Swedish men in her autobiographical novel Den högsta kasten (The Highest Caste). After studying film, psychology and literature at Stockholm University, in 1987 she published her first novel Kallare än Kargil (Cooler than Kargil) about a disillusioned woman"s travels in India. Her autobiographical Den högsta kasten (The Highest Caste) published in 1997 caused a sensation with unflattering accounts of two famous Swedes she named in the book
Describing how it feels to be an outcast rejected by the men she desires, the novel goes far beyond what is normally expected of the author"s role.
Similarly her Djävulsformeln (Devil"s Formula, 2000) contains a vendetta against a number of famous mentor Rydberg was the screenwriter for Svart Lucia (1992), a psychological thriller.