Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril

With a mixed Portuguese-Swedish heritage and a childhood in Helsingborg on Sweden’s south coast, she later moved to Stockholm to study acting before turning to literature. Her first novel, the 2003 historical portrait of astronomer Tycho Brahe titled Stjärneborg, earned the Katapult Prize the following year, establishing her reputation for biographical fiction. Subsequent works explored the lives… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources