Margareta Suber

Siri Margareta Augusta Suber (2 November 1892 – 6 April 1984) was a Swedish writer. She is best known as a novelist but was also a travel writer, translator, poet and children's writer.

Biography Suber was born in 1892 in Linköping to Johan Hjalmar Suber, a doctor, and Siri Hildegard Kindbom. She graduated from university in 1915 and began her writing career as a journalist from 1916 to 1924. In 1918, she reported on the Finnish Civil War as a correspondent to Stockholms Dagblad. She married Georg Topelius in the same year and began to write children's books under her married name, Margareta Tobelius (in her later life, she wrote under her maiden name). These included Mor berättar för sina små (1923), Negergossen Yoka (1924), Trollsaxen (1925) and De gamla goda sagorna (1926). Charlie depicts an eponymous tomboy who realises that she is in love with another woman while on a summer vacation in Sardinia. The novel's release caused significant controversy even though the publishers advertised it discreetly, without emphasising the lesbian storyline.

Near the end of her life, she reprised authorship as she began: "she again wrote a book for young people. It was matter of life and death: Adventures in Sardinia (1984), which also became her last book."