Lene Fogelberg

Lene Fogelberg is a Swedish global citizen, a Wall Street Journal bestselling and award-winning author and a double open-heart surgery survivor.Growing up in a small town on the Swedish West Coast, Lene Fogelberg developed a love of poetry and reading, nurtured by the rural surroundings of her childhood. Always curious, Fogelberg has embraced opportunities to study and live abroad, in France, Germany, the USA, Indonesia and Malaysia. Shortly after moving to the US it was discovered, by luck of circumstances, that she was in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. Within weeks she underwent two life-saving open-heart surgeries and began the long battle of recovery. Now she is well and grateful for every day with her husband and two daughters. She recently moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after four years in Indonesia.An award-winning poet in Sweden, Fogelberg has always felt drawn to writing in English and switched language when writing the memoir Beautiful Affliction, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a gold medalist in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir. Fogelberg is now working on a novel taking place in Jakarta.Lene is represented by Abrams Artists Agency.Learn more at www.lenefogelberg.com.