Babette Lind Mendy is a writer and storyteller whose work explores heritage, identity, belonging, resilience, and the quiet power of imagination.
Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Swedish mother and Gambian father, she was drawn from an early age to the world of stories — spending hours lost in books and allowing her imagination to run free.
That love of storytelling later expanded into acting, writing, and a lifelong connection to creative expression through performance, poetry, song, and movement.
Books were more than a pleasure in childhood. They were also a refuge.
Growing up as a mixed-race child in Sweden in the 1980s, Babette experienced racism and struggled at times with questions of identity and belonging. Stories offered escape, comfort, possibility, and access to worlds beyond the one immediately around her.
Those experiences continue to shape the emotional heart of her writing today.
Now based in the UK, Babette writes with a deep interest in the ways stories can help us feel seen, engage with difficult subjects, and understand each other with greater compassion.
Her creative world is shaped by both her Scandinavian and West African heritage, including her Manjago roots, and by themes of ancestry, nature, movement, memory, resilience, and imagination.
Lind & Lore is the home for that evolving body of work.