Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944 in Bjärme, Jämtland) was a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents. The English translation of her novel, Priset på vatten i Finistère (The Price of Water in Finistère, translated by Frank Perry), was selected as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. In the novel, having decided to pack up and leave her country of birth, she recounts the story her settling into her new home in the Finistère département, in the northwest of France. It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block. She was awarded a doctorate honoris causa ad gradum (honorary degree) by the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund in 2006.

Kærlighedens og erotikkens frontkæmper kunne man kalde den danske forfatter Suzanne Brøgger, der siden sin debut ”Fri os fra kærligheden” i 1973, har udfordret de moderne samlivsformer igennem litteraturen og deltagelse i den offentlige debat. Forfatterskabet, der bl.a. søger at bane menneskenes vej ind i erotikkens væsen, afsluttes nu ved forfatterens 70-års fødselsdag, der markeres med både collageværket ”SZ” og en omfattende biografi om Suzanne Brøgger som ung kvinde, ”Krukke”. Blå bog Født: 18. november 1944 i København. Uddannelse: Uafsluttede studier i russisk og fransk ved Københavns Universitet. Debut: Fri os fra kærligheden. Gyldendal, 1973. Essays og noveller. Litteraturpriser: PH-prisen, 1975. Weekend Avisens Litteraturpris, 1980. Prisen til de skiønne og nyttige Videnskabers forfremmelse, 1981. De Gyldne Laurbær, 1982. Rhodos Rose, 1984. Ingrid Jespersens pris, 1984. Gabor-prisen, 1987. Holberg Medaljen, 1992. Hammerichprisen, Louisiana, 1993. Dansk Kvindesamfunds Mathildepris, 1996. Søren Gyldendal Prisen, 1999. Rungstedlundprisen, 2005. Seneste udgivelse: SZ - Et livs billede 1944-2014. Gyldendal, 2014.

Birgitta Stenberg was born in Stockholm in 1932. She was educated in Visby and finally in Paris. Stenberg spent a lot of time in southern Europe improving her language skills. She became a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. Stenberg was, during the early 1950s, a part of the literary assembly Metamorfosgruppen. She wrote the script for the film Raskenstam. During the Cold War in the 1950s, Stenberg was named secretary of the Swedish department of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and editor for Kulturkontakt which was founded by the CIA under the cover name of Ford Foundation. Stenbergs first novel Fritt förfall was refused by Bonnier Group in 1952 due to the novels "lack of literary quality". According to the authour herself, the publishing house was put off by the novels controversial lesbian motive. The novel was published in 2008. Stenberg later wrote an autobiographical suit that deals with sex, drugs and art making, starting with Kärlek i Europa in 1981 and continuing with Apelsinmannen (1983), Spanska trappan (1987) and Alla vilda (2004). In 2009, she argued for the legalization of cannabis during the live studio news show Rapport. Stenberg's first published novel was Mikael och Poeten in 1956. The novel dealt with the Kejne Affair, a topic that is further explored in the later work Apelsinmannen. She worked at the radio interception at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as a journalist at the magazine Arbetaren (The Worker), as an interpreter, fisherman and local politician for the Left Party.