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Maria Rieck-Müller
1863–1955
Known for vivid stories rooted in northern Sweden, this journalist-novelist brought the landscapes and everyday lives of Norrland into popular fiction. Her work is often linked to the Norrland romantic tradition and reflects years spent moving through the region with her family.
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Fjällbyfolk: Bilder från öfre Norrland
by Maria Rieck-Müller
About the author
Born in Sundsvall on March 8, 1863, she was the daughter of merchant and ship-owner August Sundberg and Catharina Maria Gröndahl. In 1885 she married railway engineer and timber-floating manager Jacob Rieck-Müller, and the family moved around northern Sweden during his work on railways and logging routes.
She began publishing after turning forty, first as a journalist and then as a novelist. Her books became associated with the Norrland romantic tradition, drawing on the people, places, and atmosphere of upper northern Sweden.
Rieck-Müller died in Stockholm on December 4, 1955. Today she is remembered as a writer who helped turn northern Swedish settings and lives into accessible, engaging fiction for a broad readership.