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Updated: Oct 29, 2023


Please join us for a talk with Swedish author Maria Bouroncle about the desire to write and the discovery of a family tragedy. The event is moderated by Manil Suri, bestselling author and former writer at The New York Times.


Updated: Dec 8, 2023


A Swedish author, Maria Bouroncle, will give a talk on her novel, “It Came to Me on a Whim” at the Steeple Building Museum in Bishop Hill on Saturday, Oct. 14. Bouroncle is an economist by profession but has spent over 25 years in the field of international development before publishing her first novel in 2018. “It Came on a Whim” has been translated into several languages and is currently used as part of the Scandinavian Crime Literature course taught at UCLA. 


  • Embassy of Sweden in USA - Washington DC

Updated: Oct 17, 2023


Swedish author Maria Bouroncle will join the Swedish Historical Society of Rockford on October 6, as well as the Bishop Hill Heritage Association in Illinois on October 14 to talk about her book It Came to Me on a Whim.


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