– This year has been very successful to you on many fronts: your debut in children’s literature, The Mystery of Raspberry Hill, was awarded the prestigious Runeberg Junior Award; the second book in detective Anna Glad series, The Eighth Maiden, won the Crime Novel of the Year. Do awards change the everyday life of a writer? And if yes, in which way?

I am currently on maternity leave with little Oskar, 6 months, so my life has been quite different this spring. But funnily enough, I expected this year to be rather quiet for me as an author, and then all of a sudden, these awards appear out of the blue! I have never expected to receive a single award for my writing, and then I got these two really cool ones! The biggest change has happened in my self-esteem as a writer. I am slowly starting to grasp that I actually seem to know what I’m doing …