CARINA BURMAN IS a writer, literary researcher and is affiliated with Uppsala University as a ‘docent’. Burman made her debut in 1993 with Min salig bror Jean Hendrich and has written a total of ten novels. Most recently, Death Takes a Holiday (2025).
AS A BIOGRAPHER, Burman has published studies of Fredrika Bremer (2001), Klara Johanson (2007) and Gösta Ekman the Elder (2011). With Bellman. Biografin (2019) she returned to her research on older literature. She is currently working on a book about the women at Uppsala University (publication 2027).
IN THE SPRING of 2023, her essay collection on Golden Age crime novels Drottningar och pretendenter: Om guldålderns deckarförfattarinnor, which was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy’s prize for non-fiction book of the year.
CARINA BURMAN HAS received a number of awards both for her writing and for her research. In recent years, these include the Swedish Academy’s Schück Prize (2021), the 2022 Stig Ramel Memorial Prize, the Delblanc Prize (2023) the De Nios Society Special Prize (2023) and the 2024 Eva Bonnier 70th Anniversary Fund Scholarship and she is a life member of the college Clare Hall, Cambridge.
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