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Ina Lange
1846–1930
A Finnish-born novelist, pianist, and music historian, she moved easily between literature and music while building her career in Sweden and Denmark. Her fiction is linked with the realist writing of the late 1800s, and she also published under the pen names Daniel Sten and Daniel Stern.
4 Audiobooks
"Sämre folk": En berättelse
by Ina Lange
Bland ödebygder och skär: Berättelser från Finland
by Ina Lange
Berättelser från Finland
by Ina Lange
Luba: en studie
by Ina Lange
About the author
Born Ina Blenda Augusta Forstén in Helsinki on December 14, 1846, she was a Swedish-speaking Finn who later became known as Ina Lange after her marriage. She studied music in Berlin and Moscow and went on to work as a pianist, teacher, and music historian as well as a writer.
Her literary work is associated with the realist current of the 1880s and 1890s, and she published some fiction under the male pen names Daniel Sten and Daniel Stern. Alongside her novels and other writing, she produced music education and music history books, showing how closely her creative and scholarly interests were connected.
Much of her working life was spent outside Finland, especially in Sweden and Denmark, which may help explain why she is less widely known today than some of her Finnish contemporaries. She died in Copenhagen on October 23, 1930.