Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril

Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (born 1966) is a Swedish writer. She was born to a Portuguese mother and a Swedish father, and grew up in Helsingborg on the south coast of Sweden. In the early 90s Alexandra moved to Stockholm to pursue a career in acting before changing her focus to the art of writing.

Together with her husband Alexander Ahndoril, Alexandra writes under the pseudonym Lars Kepler, author of the internationally bestselling Joona Linna series.

In addition to her work as an author, Alexandra has also been a literary critic for two of Sweden's largest newspapers, Göteborgs-Posten and Dagens Nyheter.