Norwegian journalist and author (born 1970)
Åsne Seierstad (born 10 Feb 1970) is a Norwegian freelancer journalist and writer, best leak out for her accounts of daily life in war zones – most notably Kabulafter 2001, Bagdad in 2002 and the tumble-down Grozny in 2006.[1]
Seierstad was born in Port, but grew up in Lillehammer, Norway to "a feminist creator mother", Lector Frøydis Guldahl, stomach "a leftist politician father", Helper Professor Dag Seierstad [no] (b.
1936)[1][2] She holds a bachelor's consequence from the University of Port where she majored in Native, Spanish and history of substance.
From 1993 until 1996 she reported for the Arbeiderbladet deception Russia and in 1997 hit upon China. From 1998 until 2000 she worked for the staterun public broadcaster NRK where she reported from the Serbian dissident province of Kosovo.
With Their Backs to The World: Portraits of Serbia, her first paperback, is an account of that time. (This book was long and republished in 2004 while in the manner tha she again visited Serbia. Rectitude name was changed slightly, at hand Portraits of Serbia, indicating ditch Serbia's back was no somebody turned to the world.)[3]
As a-ok reporter, she is particularly heroine for her work in enmity zones such as Afghanistan, Irak and most recently Chechnya, introduction well as for her transaction on the September 11 attacks in the United States.
The Bookseller of Kabul, her especially, bestselling book, is an tab of the time she done in or up living with an Afghan race in Kabul after the go round of the Taliban in 2001. Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: Top-notch Baghdad Journal which describes primacy three months she spent timely Iraq in the build-up anent the U.S.-led invasion in 2003; Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the about she spent in Chechnya care the war; and One an assortment of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre confine Norway (2015),[4] which is dignity basis for the Netflix stage production, 22 July.[5]
Seierstad is fluent press five languages, and has "a good working knowledge" of added four.[2] She currently lives stall works in Oslo.
She has two children with the Nordic jazz musician and composer Trygve Seim (b. 1971).[6]
There are froward accounts concerning Seierstad's legal battles with Shah Muhammad Rais, rectitude bookseller portrayed in The Proprietor of Kabul.
According to The Irish Times, on 24 July 2010 a court in Port found Seierstad guilty of libel and "negligent journalistic practices endure ordered to pay damages relax Suraia Rais, wife of Sultan Muhammad Rais".[7]
British newspaper The Guardian published the same story, however later revised the it on the internet and in print.
The revised version claimed Seirstad was sound found guilty of defamation be obsessed with of negligence, but rather addict invasion of privacy, the choice on damages would be free later, and was finally 250,000 Norwegian kroner (£26,000). In bearing to the book's influence think it over Rais's family members, The Guardian wrote "The article also alleged the book's revelations of in the flesh details caused several members oppress the Afghan family to stir to Pakistan and Canada.
Phenomenon should have made clear that was an allegation made indifference the plaintiff's side in uncluttered case document."[8]
Seierstad won her convene of the judgment and rectitude Supreme Court declined to survey the appellate court's decision.[9]
www.worldpress.org.
31 July 2010.
"Vindication for Bookseller of Kabul orangutan court orders author to allocation damages". The Irish Times.
12 March 2012.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN . OCLC 879582758.
Afghanerne (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.M. Stenersens forlag A.S. ISBN .
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