Nygren, Anna (Sweden)

Anna Nygren, born in Sweden 1990, writes plays, poetry, film and fiction. She graduated from the Biskops-Arnö Dramatic Writing Program in 2012 and the same year she finished her Bachelor Degree in literature at Linköping University. Anna has written plays for several free groups in Sweden, and after attending the Assitej exchange program Inspiring a Generation, in Cape Town, South Africa, she has also co-written two plays for Cape Town based performing group The Playgroup. Anna currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden, working on her MA thesis on Virginia Woolf and writing parallel on two plays. When not writing Anna does illustrations or yoga, or pets her cats. One of her more different passions is crocheting, which she does whenever she can.