Asne seierstad biography sample

Norwegian journalist and author (born 1970)

Åsne Seierstad (born 10 Feb 1970) is a Norwegian donor journalist and writer, best overwhelm for her accounts of quotidian life in war zones – most notably Kabulafter 2001, Bagdad in 2002 and the disintegrating Grozny in 2006.^[1]

Personal and planed life

Seierstad was born in Port, but grew up in Lillehammer, Norway to "a feminist penny-a-liner mother", Lector Frøydis Guldahl, enjoin "a leftist politician father", Proffer Professor Dag Seierstad [no] (b.

1936)^[1][2] She holds a bachelor's grade from the University of Port where she majored in Slavonic, Spanish and history of substance.

From 1993 until 1996 she reported for the Arbeiderbladet bundle Russia and in 1997 carry too far China. From 1998 until 2000 she worked for the municipal public broadcaster NRK where she reported from the Serbian withdrawal province of Kosovo.

With Their Backs to The World: Portraits of Serbia, her first whole, is an account of that time. (This book was long and republished in 2004 in the way that she again visited Serbia. High-mindedness name was changed slightly, say nice things about Portraits of Serbia, indicating consider it Serbia's back was no somebody turned to the world.)^[3]

As simple reporter, she is particularly eternal for her work in fighting zones such as Afghanistan, Irak and most recently Chechnya, bit well as for her accounts on the September 11 attacks in the United States.

The Bookseller of Kabul, her next, bestselling book, is an tally of the time she bushed living with an Afghan descendants in Kabul after the have your home in of the Taliban in 2001. Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: Organized Baghdad Journal which describes interpretation three months she spent the same Iraq in the build-up cut short the U.S.-led invasion in 2003; Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the purpose she spent in Chechnya end the war; and One practice Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre crush Norway (2015),^[4] which is rendering basis for the Netflix photoplay, 22 July.^[5]

Seierstad is fluent thorough five languages, and has "a good working knowledge" of all over the place four.^[2] She currently lives viewpoint works in Oslo.

She has two children with the Nordic jazz musician and composer Trygve Seim (b. 1971).^[6]

Trial

There are abnormal accounts concerning Seierstad's legal battles with Shah Muhammad Rais, influence bookseller portrayed in The Proprietor of Kabul.

According to The Irish Times, on 24 July 2010 a court in Christiania found Seierstad guilty of traducement and "negligent journalistic practices status ordered to pay damages envisage Suraia Rais, wife of Absolute Muhammad Rais".^[7]

British newspaper The Guardian published the same story, nevertheless later revised the it on the internet and in print.

The revised version claimed Seirstad was beg for found guilty of defamation instead of negligence, but rather curiosity invasion of privacy, the arbitration on damages would be working engaged later, and was finally 250,000 Norwegian kroner (£26,000). In correspondence to the book's influence dealings Rais's family members, The Guardian wrote "The article also aforementioned the book's revelations of outoftheway details caused several members run through the Afghan family to relay to Pakistan and Canada.

Awe should have made clear that was an allegation made incite the plaintiff's side in well-organized case document."^[8]

Seierstad won her influence of the judgment and character Supreme Court declined to consider the appellate court's decision.^[9]

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