Luthander studied at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. Between 1986 and 1994 she lived on the Adriatic island of Hvar in Croatia where she made her debut as a writer in 1993 with the book Žvončići sreće.[2]
Luthander was a member of the Swedish Writers Association and the Swedish Immigrant Writers Association, later renamed the Swedish International Writers Association. She worked as a columnist for the magazine Sesam Öppnar Dörrar.[7]
She often participated in poetry slam competitions in Sweden, both as a contestant and as an organizer.[8][9] Luthander often drew inspiration from Japan; several of her published works are Japanese short poems, haiku.[10][11] Luthander folded origami flowers and wrote her poems on stalks. She brought haiku, origami and ikebana together into her own Orikebana.[12][13]
She was married to the Swedish journalist Per Luthander between 1975 and 1986. She has a daughter and a son, they both live in Stockholm.
Style
Her poems are often described with sense of joy and energy. The poetry is straightforward and unadorned as stylistic for poets such as Märta Tikkanen, Kristina Lugn and Bodil Malmsten. Luthander's poems are unsentimental and the imagery is original and sometimes drastic.[14][15]
2005 - Dovidjenja i srećno! (Hej då ha det så bra!), Kristina Lugn, Belgrade
2006 - Izgubljena reč, (Det Förlorade Ordet), Bruno K. Öijer, Belgrade
2006 - Izmedju 16 i 26, (Mellan sexton och tjugosex), Lukas Moodysson, Belgrade
2007 - Vreme za ljubav, (Tid för kärlek), Ulf Lundell, Belgrade
2009 - Vrijeme za ljubav (Tid för kärlek), Ulf Lundell, "UKCG", Podgorica
2013 - Bergman i žene (Bergman och kvinnor), Alexandra Luthander, Stockholm
From Serbo-Croatian to Swedish
2005 - Ögat är större än himmelen, serbiska poeter jag har mött (Oko je prostranije od neba, srpski pesnici koje sam upoznala), e book, "Serum.se", Stockholm
2005 - Ögat är större än himmelen, (Poeziju će svi pisati), "Gatos", Belgrade
2007 - Alla skall skriva poesi 2, (Poeziju će svi pisati 2), Stockholm
2008 - Alla skall skriva poesi 3, (Poeziju će svi pisati 3), Stockholm
2008 - Alla skall skriva poesi: serbiska poeter jag mött, (Poeziju će svi pisati: srpski pesnici koje sam upoznala), e book, "Serum.se", Stockholm
2010 - Brev från Serbien (Pisma iz Srbije), Slobodan Branković, Stockholm
^Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Beskrajni plavi krug". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2022-02-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Haber, Internet (2006-10-17). "Beni Mustafa Kemal Kurtardı". internethaber.com/beni-mustafa-kemal-kurtardi-47849h.htm (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-02-27.