Background
Marianne Rosenbröijer was born in Ekenäs in southern Finland on 9 October 1918.
Marianne Rosenbröijer was born in Ekenäs in southern Finland on 9 October 1918.
The following year she moved to Sweden. The work is thought to be influenced by the style and approach of the existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. This book was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Her books have been translated into Finnish and Norwegian.
She also lived in the United States of America and in France and moved to Sweden again in 1973. Ten years later she wrote Drabbad av Sverige which deals with what it is to be Swedish.
Only a week before her death, she was moved back to Finland, and she died in Helsinki in November 2014.