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Elisabeth Åsbrink

エリサベト・オスブリン

Erisabeto Osburin

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1965-04-29 （Gothenburg, Sweden）
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Residence History
Sweden

Career

Occupations
Author, journalist
Active Years
2009-2024
Nominations
August Prize 2009 nomination for non-fiction, August Prize 2016 nomination

Awards

August Prize
2011
Work: Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar
Category: ノンフィクション
Organization: Forfattarfondens
Result: winner
Danish-Swedish Cultural Foundations annual Culture Prize
2013
Organization: Danish-Swedish Cultural Foundations
Result: winner
Ryszard Kapuściński Award
2014
Work: Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Smärtpunkten – Lars Norén, pjäsen Sju tre och morden i Malexander

2009 non-fiction

Book about Lars Norén and the Malexander murders.

theatercrime
Translations
  • Polish

Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar

2011 non-fiction

Based on 500 letters from Vienna to a boy who fled to Sweden in 1939. Reveals IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's Nazi ties.

HolocaustNazisIKEArefugees
Translations
  • English (And in the Vienna Woods The Trees Remain by Saskia Vogel)
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Slovakian
  • Czech
  • Estonian

Räls

2012 play

Play based on Hermann Göring's 1938 meeting minutes and interviews with child refugees from Nazi Germany.

Nazisrefugees

1947

2016 non-fiction

Biography of the year 1947.

historypost-war
Translations
  • 1947: When Now Begins (by Fiona Graham)

Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas that Created a Country

2019 non-fiction

Book about 25 ideas that created Sweden.

Swedenculture

Legacy

Prominent Swedish author and journalist, winner of the August Prize, known for non-fiction on history, particularly WWII themes.