Grethe Rottböll

Grethe Inga Rottböll Sund (born Poulsen, 11 February 1956) is a Swedish singer and author. She lives and works in Sweden and writes books for adults and children. During the 1990s, she worked as a singer (mezzo-soprano) in operas and operettas. Since May 2018 she is the chairman of the Swedish Writers’ Union.

Biography Grethe Rottböll grew up in a family who were all singers. She lost both her parents at a young age and decided to take her father's family name Rottböll as her last name. In 1979 she moved to Stockholm, and in 1981 published her first book called Att vara Emilia. She sang a.o. "Cherubino" in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus, and Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice.

Rottböll along with her husband Håkan Sund started the Bergslagenoperan in Bergslagen.

In the early 2000s, she started publishing children's books. She has also written factual books about animals and nature. Rottböll has published two books about the boy character Ole, with illustrations by Anna-Karin Garhamn. She has also published factual books on subjects like singing, rhetoric, theatre, traffic, circus and dragons. With illustration work by Lisen Ådbåge, Rottböll has published the much liked books about Tio vilda hästar (Ten wild horses). In 2013, she published the book Jon har ett svart hål i sitt röda hjärta (Jon has a black hole in his red heart); the book tells about death in a way which is understandable for children.