Åsne Seierstad

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Åsne Seierstad at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

Åsne Seierstad (born February 10, 1970 in Oslo ; alternative spelling Aasne Seierstad ) is a Norwegian writer and journalist .

Life

Åsne Guldahl Seierstad was born in Oslo and grew up in Lillehammer with a brother and a sister. She studied Russian , Spanish and the history of ideas in Oslo . She graduated with a Cand.mag. from.

She initially worked for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet . From 1993 to 1996 she reported from Russia as a foreign correspondent and from China in 1997 . From 1998 to 2003 she worked for Dagsrevyen on Norwegian television NRK as a war reporter in conflict regions, including Serbia , Kosovo , Afghanistan , Iraq and Chechnya . Swedish television also broadcast Seierstad's reports.

Her books have been translated into several languages. She has two children with jazz musician Trygve Seim .

Controversy about “The bookseller from Kabul. A family story "

Seierstad wrote about her stay with an Afghan bookseller family. “As a western woman, I was able to stay with both women and men. Had I been a man I would never have been able to live with the family, so close to the Sultan's wives, without them being discussed. ”The book has been translated into many languages.

The bookseller's second wife sued her in a Norwegian court and was awarded Norwegian kroner 250,000 in the first instance in 2010 for incorrectly reproducing some of her quotes and for inappropriately invading her privacy. Among other things, the genitals of a woman visiting the hammam were described in one scene. The bookseller complained that his family had been degraded and that family members whose sex lives Seierstad had described had to emigrate to Pakistan or Canada because of hostility in Afghanistan. In the second instance, Seierstad was acquitted.

Awards (selection)

Åsne Seierstad receives the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2018

Seierstad received several journalist prizes , such as 1999 " Gullruten ", 2001 "Fritt Ords honnør", 2002 "Årets frilanser" and the " Bokhandlerprisen " for Bokhandleren i Kabul , 2003 "Den store journalistprisen" and "Årets Peer Gynt", 2004 EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Award) and “Prix de Libraires”. For her book Zwei Schwestern she received the renowned Brageprisen . In 2018, Seierstad was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding for One of Us. The story of a mass murderer excellent. Seierstad it looks at the background to the 2011 by Anders Behring Breivik committed attacks in Norway , with 77 dead.

Works (in German)

  • With your back to the world. Tito's heirs between hope and despair (from the Norwegian by Edelgard Rora and Ekkehard Boesche). Merlin, Gifkendorf 2001, ISBN 3-87536-221-7 .
  • The bookseller from Kabul. A family story (from the Norwegian by Holger Wolandt). Claassen, Munich 2002; List, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-60430-7 .
  • Diary from Baghdad. Everyday life between fear and hope (from the Norwegian by Holger Wolandt). Claassen, Munich 2003; List, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-60504-4 .
  • The Angel of Grozny. Chechnya and its children (from Norwegian by Lothar Schneider). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-072524-0 .
  • One of us. The Story of a Mass Murderer ( translated from Norwegian and English by Frank Zuber and Nora Pröfrock ). No & But, Zurich / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-0369-5740-1 . [via Anders Breivik]
  • Two sisters. Under the spell of jihad (from the Norwegian by Nora Pröfrock). No & But, Zurich / Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-0369-5774-6 .

Web links

Commons : Åsne Seierstad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Åsne Seierstad inntar scenes with samboer Trygve Seim (radio) . In: iFrance.no . November 22, 2010 ( wordpress.com [accessed December 6, 2017]).
  2. ^ Åsne Seierstad: The bookseller from Kabul. A family story. List TB, Ullstein, Berlin 8th 2008, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Amelia Hill: Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: "It's not possible to write a neutral story". The Guardian , July 31, 2010.
  4. ↑ Author wins over Afghan subject. newsinenglish.no, March 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ Norwegian author Asne Seierstad chosen , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, December 6, 2017, accessed on December 6, 2017
  6. ↑ "The impressive attempt to understand" , boersenblatt.net, December 6, 2017, accessed on December 7, 2017
  7. ↑ Katja Thimm : Books: Hi and Salam alaikum . In: Der Spiegel . tape 7 , February 14, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : From Norway into Jihad: Baking for the Holy War. October 31, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Seierstad, Åsne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seierstad, Aasne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo