Louise Gunvor Catharina Lagercrantz Boije af Gennäs (born Boije af Gennäs on 1 November 1961) is a Swedish writer, feminist, and co-creator of Rederiet, the longest-running Swedish soap opera in history.
Boije af Gennäs best-selling novel, the semi-autobiographical Stjärnor utan svindel (Stars Without Vertigo) from 1996, is based on the author's relationship with the prominent feminist Mian Lodalen. The story unleashes the tale of 32-year-old Sophie, who enjoys conjugal contentment with a businessman while building a career as a novelist and journalist. The couple's bourgeois life amid Stockholm's jet set lurches toward the wild side, however, when the lesbian radical feminist Kaja enters the scene, the friendship between the two women erupts into a passionate love affair.
Biography
Born into the Swedish branch of the noble (frälse) Boije af Gennäs [sv] family, she was raised in Bromma, Stockholm until the age of 14, when her parents moved to France. She then attended the Lundsbergs boarding school in Storfors until the age of 18, when she moved to the United States to study literary history at Wellesley College. After four years, she moved back to Sweden and briefly studied at Lund University before moving back to the U.S. to pursue a master's degree in journalism at University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987.
After returning to Sweden, she worked as a freelance journalist before joining Sveriges Television (SVT) as a screenwriter in 1991. There, she developed the concept of what was to later become Rederiet, while writing her first novel Ta vad man vill ha. She was also responsible for developing the concept of the Nya tider soap opera, broadcast on TV4 from 1999–2006.
In the early-1990s, Boije af Gennäs met Peter Voors, who was then employed as the party secretary of the New Democracy (Sweden) party. They resided in the U.S. for several years before divorcing and her moving back to Sweden. She was then involved in a relationship with author Mian Lodalen [sv] before marrying businessman Carl-Erik Lagercrantz, presently the CEO of Vargas Holding and a co-founder of Northvolt, in 1999. They have two children.
Bibliography
- Ta vad man vill ha (1991)
- Ju mer jag ser dig (1992)
- Ingen människa en ö (1994)
- Stjärnor utan svindel (1996)
- Rent hus (1999)
- När kärleken kom (1999)
Filmography
- Rederiet (1992)
- Snoken (1993)
- Skilda världar (1996)
Notes
- Louise Gunvor Catharina Lagercrantz Boije af Gennäs
- ""Jag är inte bisexuell"". 21 June 2005.
- "Lotta möter Louise Boije af Gennäs: "Jag har aldrig tidigare varit kär i en kvinna" | Hänt". 14 December 2014.
External links
Media related to Louise Boije af Gennäs at Wikimedia Commons
