Johanna Holmström
Johanna Holmström is a Finland-Swedish author.
Holmström was born in Sipoo and lives in Helsinki. Her first publication was the short-story collection Inlåst och andra noveller, from which the short story "Inlåst" was nominated for the Swedish Radio Short-story Prize in 2004. This was followed by the short story collection Tvåsamhet. Holmström's first novel was published in September 2007: Ur din längtan. In 2009 she won the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize for her third short-story collection Camera Obscura, a connected series of stories focused on young eco-terrorists in Helsinki. Since then, she has published Asfaltsänglar, Hush Baby and Själarnas ö. Själarnas ö tells the stories of three of the inmates of a women-only mental hospital on the island of Själö near Turku.
