Background
Thor was born in Gothenburg in 1950.
Thor was born in Gothenburg in 1950.
She has worked as a librarian, a novelist, screen writer and as a journalist. She wrote a novel about Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust to live on an island in Sweden. This is called A Faraway Land in English and Thor has written three sequels, Lily Pond, Deep Sea and Open Sea.
She has written 15 books for children and teenagers, and three books for adults and they have been translated into 17 languages.
Her most recent novel for adults, Om inte nu så när? (If not now, when?), appeared in 2011.