Kristina ohlsson biography
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Kristina Ohlsson
Swedish author
Not to be confused with Kristina Olsson or Kristina Olson.
Kristina Ohlsson | |
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| Born | (1979-03-02) 2 March 1979 (age 45) Kristianstad, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Genre | Crime Fiction |
Kristina Ohlsson (born 2 March 1979) is a Swedishpolitical scientist and award-winning writer.
She grew up in Kristianstad and then moved to Gothenburg, where she studied Political Science. Then, she obtained a master’s degree in political science and crisis management from the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm.[1] Ohlsson has worked as a Counter-Terrorism Officer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; she has also worked for the Swedish Security Service, for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and for the Swedish National Defense College. She lives in Stockholm.[2][3]
Besides her adult fiction, which includes a series featuring investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman, Ohlsson has also written a popular trilogy of children's suspense novels.[4] In 2010, she was awarded the Stabilo Prize for Best Crime Writer of Southern Sweden.[3] In 2013, she received the Children's Novel Award from Sveriges Radio.[5] In 2017, she was awarded the Crimetime
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Kristina Olsson
Australian writer
Not to be confused with Kristina Ohlsson or Kristina Olson.
Kristina Olsson | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Occupation | Novelist, journalist, teacher |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | General fiction and non fiction |
| www.kristinaolsson.net | |
Kristina Olsson (born 1956) is an Australian writer, journalist and teacher. She is a recipient of the Barbara Jefferis Award, Queensland Literary Award, and Nita Kibble Literary Award.
Early life
[edit]Kristina Olsson was raised in Brisbane, Australia of Swedish and Australian heritage.[1]
Career
[edit]Olsson studied journalism at the University of Queensland and went on to write for The Australian, The Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail, the Sydney Sunday Telegraph and Griffith Review.[2]
Her first novel In One Skin was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001.[3] This was followed by the biography Kilroy Was Here, which told the story of prison reformer Debbie KilroyOAM. In 2010 her novel The China Garden won the Barbara Jefferis Award, which is offered annually for Australian novels which depict women and girls positively, or empower the position of women in society.[4][5][6]
Kristina's nonfiction work Boy, Lost:
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