Author and Poet. Renowned Swedish author and poet, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her real name was Karla Lundkvist, but was known as her pseudonym, Maria Wine. Her childhood - growing up in orphanage and foster-home - she described in the auto-biographical "Man har skjutit ett lejon" (1951). She had several collections of poems and novels published, among them "Vinden ur mörkret" (1943), "Feberfötter" (1947) and "Minnena vaknar" (Awakening memories) from 1994, about her life with famed author/poet Artur Lundkvist, whom she married in 1936.