Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing (born January 29, 1962 in Lund ) is a Swedish anthropologist, publisher, philanthropist and author.
Life
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing is a daughter of Hans Rausing and his wife Märit, née Norrby. Her siblings are Lisbet and Hans Kristian , all three are grandsons of Tetra Pak founder Ruben Rausing .
She studied history at the University of York from 1983 to 1986 and took her master's degree in social anthropology at the University College of London in 1987 . In 1995 she founded the Sigrid Rausing Foundation . In spring 2005 she founded the literary journal Granta and the publishing house of the same name with her husband Eric Abraham , film and television producer, and the publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones .
Sigrid Rausing lives in London and is the founder of a humanitarian foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust .
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Fonts
- History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia. The End of a Collective Farm . Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-926318-9 .
- Everything is wonderful. Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia . Grove / Atlantic, Incorporated 2014, ISBN 978-0-8021-9281-3 .
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Mayhem. A memoir . Hamish Hamilton, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-241-25926-9 .
- German edition: Disaster . Translated from English by Adelheid Zöfel, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397219-1 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rausing, Sigrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rausing, Sigrid Maria Elisabet (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish anthropologist, publisher, philanthropist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lund |