Maria Ernestam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maria Ernestam

Swedish female writer and journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1959

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maria Ernestam (born 28 November 1959) is a Swedish author and journalist. Ernestam grew up in Uppsala, Sweden.
She is a journalist, having earned her journalism degree at the University of Gothenburg.
In addition, Ernestam studied English literature and Mathematics at the University of Uppsala.
Ernestam also studied in the United States, where she took a Master of Arts in political science, focusing on international relations, at the University of Kansas.
She thereafter moved to Germany where she stayed for eleven years in Frankfurt am Main, working as a correspondent for Swedish business weekly Veckans affärer and Swedish medical weekly Dagens medicin. In 2005, Maria Ernestam got her first novel published, "Caipirinha with Death" (Caipirinha med Döden).
It tells the tale of Death knocking at the wrong door and meeting a woman who starts working for him.
In Russia the book was compared to Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita".
After that, Ernestam has written seven more novels.
She has also contributed to anthologies and short story selections.
Ernestam lives in Stockholm with her husband and two children.