Background
Sigrid Combüchen was born in Solingen in the Ruhr territory).
Sigrid Combüchen was born in Solingen in the Ruhr territory).
Shortly after the War her family moved to Sweden. Sigrid Combüchen made her debut at the age of seventeen with the novel Ett rumsrent sällskap, 1960. She returned to fiction seventeen years later with the novel I norra Europa (In Northern Europe) in 1977 and then Värme (Warmth) in 1980.
The books are about crisis and myths in post-war Europe.
Her best-known novel is Byron, published in 1988. The book paints a picture of the English poet through a compositional change between present and past where Byron is partly illustrated by a group of Byron enthusiasts of today, partly through the environment in his own time.
lieutenant was translated into English the same year and to German in 1991, and was also translated to five more languages. She was editor of the magazine Allt om Böcker for a number of years and writes at times for the feuilleton in daily newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen.