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Born in Stockholm, Rynell was the daughter of an English teacher and a nurse
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Elisabeth Rynell
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Her novel Till Mervas (2002), the first to be translated into English, appeared in 2011 as Mervas. After completing her schooling, she spent a year in England as an au pair. She has also visited Iran and Afghanistan on an overland trip to Pakistan and India.
After spending much of her life in the far north of Sweden, she now lives in Stockholm and Hälsingland.
Her first collection of poems Nattliga samtal (Noctural Conversations) appeared in 1990 but it was her novel Hohaj (1997) which brought her into the limelight and earned her two literary prizes.
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