Elisabeth Åsbrink
| Elisabeth Åsbrink | |
|---|---|
 Åsbrink in 2012 | |
| Born | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Occupation | Author, Journalist |
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink (born 29 April 1965) is a Swedish author and journalist. She made her debut with the book Smärtpunkten - Lars Norén, pjäsen Sju tre och morden i Malexander.[1] The book was nominated for the August prize for non-fiction in 2009, and is translated into Polish. In 2010 she received the Jarl Alfredius stipendium with the motivation: "time after time she manages to treat contemporary social issues with great curiosity and sensitivity" ( "med stor nyfikenhet och känslighet gång på gång förmår skildra dagens samhällsfrågor.").[2]
In August 2011 she released the book Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar based on 500 letters written to a young boy from his family in Vienna after he had fled to Sweden in 1939 as a refugee from the Nazis.[3]
The book received a lot of attention as it revealed new information about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad that he had been placed under surveillance by the security police.[3] In 1943 the police created a dossier on him under the heading "Nazi".[3] The book also revealed that in an interview Åsbrink made with Kamprad in 2010 he said that he had been loyal to the Swedish fascist leader Per Engdahl.[3]
Åsbrink won the August prize for best non-fiction in 2011 for Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar, the Danish-Swedish Cultural Foundations annual Culture Prize 2013 and in May 2014 she received the Kapuściński Award i Warsaw. The book has been translated into German, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian and Estonian.
In 2012 she debuted as a playwright with the play "RÄLS", based on the authentic minutes from a meeting convened by Hermann Göring in 1938, and interviews with child refugees from Nazi Germany.[4] This was followed by the plays Pojken och Det Sjungande Trädet and Dr Alzheimer. On 13 July 2010, Åsbrink was the host of the radio show Sommar i P1 on Swedish Public Radio, Sveriges Radio.[5]
References
- ↑ "Elisabeth Åsbrink / Smärtpunkten". Expressen. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Sveriges Radio. "Olle Hägg och Elisabeth Åsbrink de första Jarl Alfredius-stipendiaterna". Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Elisabeth Åsbrink: "Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar"". DN.SE. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Kristina Hermansson. "Sargade barn som vuxna". SvD.se. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Sveriges Radio. "Elisabeth Åsbrink". Retrieved 30 May 2015.
External links
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