Sigrid Combüchen (b. January 16, 1942 in Solingen in the Ruhr territory). Shortly after the War her family moved to Sweden. She is a Swedish writer and literary critic and has so far published seven novels, a collection of essays and a biography (on the Norwegian novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 Knut Hamsun). She received the 2004 Selma Lagerlöf Prize and in 2007 she received an Honorary Doctorate in Literature at Lund University, Sweden, for her literary merits.
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, 1977. Her best-known novel so far is Byron, 1988. It 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.
Sigrid Combüchen in the German National Library catalogue (German)