Jenny Nordberg

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Jenny Nordberg (* 1972 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish investigative journalist and author.

Career

Nordberg holds a bachelor's degree in law and journalism from Stockholm University and a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2003 . Nordberg lives in New York and works for the New York Times , Svenska Dagbladet , Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television , among others .

In 2003, Nordberg and Nuri Kino were awarded the Swedish “Guldspaden” journalist prize for a report on Iraqi spies at the migration authority. In 2010 she received the Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, a non-profit in Washington, DC

When Nordberg visited her Afghan friend Azita, a member of the Kabul parliament, in 2009, she was amazed to see how one of Azita's four daughters was introduced to her as a son. From 2009 to 2014 she researched the phenomenon of "bacha posh" in Afghanistan, Sweden and the USA, which Siddiq Barmak had portrayed for the first time in his film " Osama ": girls who are passed off as boys in the male-dominated society of Afghanistan thus increasing the family's reputation. Nordberg initially reported to the New York Times and Herald Tribune until the materials reached the volume for a book. For this book “The Underground Girls of Kabul”, published in 2014 in English, Nordberg was awarded the “J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize “from Columbia University . In 2015 the translation of “Afghanistans Hidden Töchter” by Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf and Robert A. Weiß was published by Hoffmann and Campe , further translations appeared in French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Russian, Turkish and Malayalam .

Reviews

On Deutschlandfunk, Ralph Gerstenberg describes Nordberg's book about girls dressed as boys in Afghanistan as “an impressive and emphatically subjective book, […] a book that tries not only to look at the country's misogynistic culture from a western perspective, but also to give those people their say leaves, whose fate the author takes part: Afghan women and girls, a small number of whom grow up as boys. "

For Susanne Mayer , Nordberg's book tells "of the hardships of everyday life, but even more exciting" is it "how it unfolds the rigid system of this gender segregation."

Anna Fischhaber feels that Nordberg describes it as “very impressive”, “what it means to grow up as a girl in Afghanistan. Or as a fake son. "

For Alice Schwarzer , Nordberg's "rousing mixture [...] of reportage, study and essay" was her personal "book of the year" and "a source of knowledge", "a book that no one should miss."

Marian Brehmer reviews Nordberg's book on qantara.de and sees it as "brilliantly researched". “With journalistic curiosity and tact”, “Nordberg visited families across the country” and interviewed “housewives as well as doctors and politicians”. The book contains "nuanced background information on Afghan society without generalizing". The author provides "a well-founded overview of the history of women's rights under the constantly changing rulers in the Hindu Kush, but is critical of the Western instrumentalization of the women's issue in the" war on terror "".

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenny Nordberg . In: Svenska Dagbladet .
  2. ^ Jenny Nordberg: Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part . In: The New York Times . 20th September 2010.
  3. ↑ Ralph Gerstenberg: When daughters grow up as sons . In: Deutschlandfunk . May 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ Susanne Mayer : temporary brother . In: The time . No. 11/2015, March 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Anna Fischhaber: A fake son is better than none . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Alice Schwarzer : Gender or Freedom? In: Emma . April 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Marian Brehmer: Boys on time . In: qantara.de . December 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nordberg, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala