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Boel Westin is emeritus professor of literature who specialises in children’s and young people’s literature. She is also a researcher, writer and literary critic. She wrote the first doctoral dissertation on Tove Jansson and is internationally regarded for her 2007 biography of Jansson, which went on to be published in six languages (in English as Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words). She has also written on August Strindberg, on historical children’s and juvenile literature, and on animal autobiographies. She is the volume editor for a new history of children’s literature entitled Den Svenska barn- och ungdomslitteraturen från 1300-tal till 2010-tal (Swedish Children’s and Young People’s Literature, 1300s-2010s).