What is Tove Alsterdal?
[[File:Tove-Alsterdal-Foto-Annika-Marklund.jpg|thumb|Tove Alsterdal]] '''Tove Kerstin Alsterdal''', born on the 28th of December 1960 in Malmö, is a Swedish author, journalist and playwright. In 2009 she made her debut with her first book in the thriller genre, ‘The Forgotten Dead‘, and has since been published in many countries worldwide. She has also written manuscripts for movies and theatre, and been an editor for author Liza Marklund’s bestselling crime novels. == Biography == Alsterdal was born year 1960 in Malmö. Her father was the journalist and author Alvar Alsterdal (1926-1991) from Alster in Värmland, Sweden. Alsterdal’s mother Elsa Bolin (1928-2009) was from Tornedalen, the northernmost part of Sweden bordering [[Finland]]. Alsterdal grew up in Umeå in northern Sweden and in Jakobsberg, a suburb in Stockholm that she has depicted in her novel, ‘''Let me take your han''d’. During her first years of her career after graduating from high school she worked as a psychiatric nurse at Beckomberga hospital, a mental institution that recurs in the novel ‘Do not turn around’. In the years 1984-1985 Alsterdal studied journalism at Kalix Folkhögskola in the north of Sweden. There she met Liza Marklund with whom she would come to work closely with, author to author. Alsterdal lived in the town Luleå in Norrbotten for many years as an adult, where she among other things worked as a journalist for radio and TV, and started off her career as a playwright. Nowadays she lives in Stockholm. She has three daughters with her previous husband Nikolaj Alsterdal (née Andersen), the oldest born in 1999 and twins born in 2002. === Authorship === Tove Alsterdal worked as a freelance journalist when she started writing drama for the fringe theatre Teater Scratch in Luleå in the beginning of the 1990s. Later she wrote manuscripts for county theatres, opera, radio, TV and movies. In the spring of 2000, Alsterdal bought [[Alfred Nobel]]’s former laboratory in Vinterviken, Stockholm and ran her own cabaret theatre with her e