Gitte Spee was born in 1950 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Her family moved to Holland when she was 11 years old. Gitte Spee graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 1983, and she has since then worked as an author and illustrator of children’s books. Her books have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, English, Japanese, Korean and Swedish.

Camilla Ceder (born 1976) has studied social science and psychotherapy, and besides being an author she also works with counselling and social work. “

Jan Gradvall (b. 1963) is an award-winning writer and Sweden’s most respected music journalist in the last 40 years. He has written several books on popular culture before, but says about MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER that “[i]t feels as though everything I’ve written about music has led up to this book.”

Gradvall is the recipient of the Swedish Publicists’ Association’s Grand Prize in 2013 for “his perfect pitch when depicting everything that makes life interesting”, and won Journalist of the Year awarded by trade organization Sweden’s Magazines in 2001. Gradvall was also instrumental in the founding of the Swedish Music Hall of Fame and served as chairman the first three years since its inauguration.

He has a uniquely close journalistic relationship with ABBA, and has appeared in two BBC documentaries, The Joy of ABBA and Flatpack Pop about the Swedish songwriting phenomenon before writing MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER.