Cecilia Gyllenhammar

Who is Cecilia Gyllenhammar?

Anne Cecilia Gyllenhammar is a Swedish author.

Cecilia Gyllenhammar has two sisters, Charlotte Gyllenhammar and Sophie Gyllenhammar Mattson, and a brother, Oscar Gyllenhammar. She was married to documentary film director Fredrik von Krusenstjerna between 1995 and 2008, and is the mother of three children. The oldest daughter of Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, CEO of Volvo 1970-1994, and Christina Gyllenhammar, she grew up as the "Princess of Gothenburg". She gave up both studies in the US and a career as a journalist before devoting herself to her children.

Her novel En spricka i kristallen published in 2004 tells the story of the childhood of "Suss", an upper class girl from Göteborg and the daughter of a CEO. Many details in the novel are from Cecilia's own childhood, but the plot also contains purely fictional parts. In the novel, Suss suffers of bulimia and marries a documentary film director - details the author admits are from her own life, while the factuality of other details, such as the constantly unfaithful father and the mother who tells her desperate daughter to lose 15 kilos, signs a check and leaves, remains a secret. In an interview in 2007, she said "you make a choice when you tell about unpleasant things not meant to be public" and that she had lost contact with her parents.