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List Of Swedish Journalists
This is a list of Swedish journalists. A * Amun Abdullahi (23 October 1974 – ) * Kjell Albin Abrahamson (23 June 1945 – 22 September 2016) * Maria Abrahamsson (21 July 1963 – ) * Martin Adler (30 October 1958 – 23 June 2006) * Sophie Adlersparre (6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895) * Ingela Agardh (27 October 1948 – 17 June 2008) * Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800) * Kattis Ahlström (9 June 1966 – ) * Lisbeth Åkerman (6 May 1967 – ) * Tom Alandh (13 June 1944 – ) * Jarl Alfredius (3 January 1943 – 31 March 2009) * Karin Alfredsson (1953 – ) * Casten Almqvist (17 March 1962 – ) * Barbro Alving (12 January 1909 – 22 January 1987) * Eva Andén (1886–1970) * Leif Anderson (11 February 1925 – 17 November 1999) * Pamela Andersson (13 March 1965 – ) * Britt Arenander (1941 – ) * Anna Olsdotter Arnmar (22 June 1963 – ) * Elisabeth Åsbrink (29 April 1965 – ) * Tage Aurell (1895–1976) * Suzanne Axell (27 December 1955 – ) * Torbjörn Axel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amun Abdullahi
Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (born October 23, 1974) is a Somali-Swedish journalist and founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu, Somalia. Biography Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee. In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm's Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia. In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab. She has been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work. She claims that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth. Awards * 2010: Swedish Publicists' Association Freedom of Speech prize in memory of Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britt Arenander
Britt Arenander (born 1941) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... translator, writer and journalist. Life She was born in Stockholm and was educated at Frans Schartaus gymnasium, Södra Flickläroverket. She trained as a journalist during the 1960s. Arenander published a series of novels ''Steget'' in 1968, ''Off'' in 1969 and ''Alla broar brända'' in 1971. In 1974, she published her first collection of poetry ''Dröm om verkligheten utanför Stockholm och andra dikter''. She has also written radio plays. During the 1990s, she worked as a translator of French and English literature into Swedish, including much of Anais Nin's diaries. She has also contributed to various anthologies including ''Liv och kärlek: om kvinnor av kvinnor'' and ''Anais Nin: A Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Bergvall
Erik Gustaf Bergvall (7 April 1880 – 4 February 1950) was a Swedish water polo player, journalist and sports official. He also promoted the Bergvall system, a variation of the traditional knockout tournament system which was used at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. Water polo player As a water polo player, Bergvall represented Sweden at the 1908 Summer Olympics and helped the national water polo team gain the bronze medal in the water polo. At club level, Bergvall represented Stockholms KK. Sports official In 1904, Bergvall was among the founding member of the Swedish Swimming Federation and served as its secretary between 1904 and 1908 and as chairman between 1909 and 1932. He was also a member of the board of the Swedish Sports Confederation from its foundation in 1903 until 1945. He also served as assistant secretary of the Swedish Olympic Committee in 1906 and again between 1913 and 1924. In addition he was among the founders of the Fédération Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Bergman
Sven Bergman (born 12 November 1967) is a Swedish investigative reporter/producer for the current affairs show "Uppdrag granskning" on SVT. He works in a team with Fredrik Laurin and Joachim Dyfvermark. The trio has specialized in global investigative journalism, and often cooperates with fellow journalists around the world. For their stories the trio has been awarded numerous international awards, such as the ICIJ ''Daniel Pearl Award from'' Daniel Pearl Foundation, ''Edward R Murrow Award'', ''Overseas Press Clubs Eric and Amy Burger Award'' and '' Prix Circom''. Together with his teampartners Sven Bergman is the only journalist who has been awarded three times with the most prestigious Swedish award: ''Stora journalistpriset'' (2013, 2007, 2005). Sven Bergman is a member to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ. A global network of 185 investigative journalists in more than 65 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories. Extraord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Bergfeldt
Barbro Carina Bergfeldt, (born 19 February 1980) is a Swedish journalist, reporter, columnist and author. Since March 2016 she is SVT's correspondent to Washington, D.C. In 2012, Bergfeldt was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset Stora Journalistpriset ("The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism") is an annual Swedish award, founded in 1966 by Bonnier AB, given to "recognize achievement in journalism". The prize money is SEK 100,000 and is awarded in four categories: * Sc ... in the category Storyteller of the Year for her report "Dagen vi aldrig glömmer" about the Utøya massacre in July 2011. Bibliography *Bergfeldt, Carina (2012). ''Fadersmord''. Stockholm: Frank. *''Rasismen i Sverige'' (anthology, 2014) *Bergfeldt, Carina (2015). ''Sju dagar kvar att leva''. Stockholm: Norstedt. *Bergfeldt, Carina (2015). ''Fotografiet''. Bookmark Förlag. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergfeldt, Carina Living people 1980 births Swedish women writers Swedish journalists Place of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Bengtsson
Lars Olov "Lasse" Bengtsson (born 22 December 1951) is a Swedish journalist and television presenter. He has been the presenter of shows such as ''Nyhetsmorgon Lördag'' ("Newsmorning Saturday"), ''TV4 News'', ''Misstänkt'' ("Suspected"), and he also was a reporter for the Swedish broadcasts of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Career Bengtsson has worked for Sveriges Radio, TV4 and Viasat. His first journalist work was for a local radio station in Malmfätet during the miners strike there. After that he worked for Sveriges Radio; amongst the shows he appeared on was ''Dagens Eko'' ("Today's Eccho), and he was also a foreign correspondent, news-presenter, reporter and producer for the same show. In 1991 he started working for TV4 when he presented the news morning show ''Nyhetsmorgon Lördag'', and ''TV4 News''. One of his first jobs for TV4 was travelling to Bosnia to report on the Bosnian war and the refugees there. He also conducted the first televised interview with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Olof Bengtsson
Jan-Olof Bengtsson is a Swedish journalist and political columnist in different media. He was born on 30 April 1952 and lives in Malmö, Sweden and in France. Accredited Bengtsson covered the Middle East conflict in Israel and Lebanon during the early eighties as correspondent. He has also been European correspondent and in that capacity covered European Affairs and EU-related material for several years with base in Brussels and Strasbourg. Among other assignments he participated in the Swedish Himalaya-expedition in Nepal in 1981. He is accredited to the ''International Press Centre'' by the Danish ministry of foreign affairs and a member of the Swedish Union of Journalists . Until 2011 he worked as political columnist of the Swedish daily Kvällsposten, Malmö, Sweden. Now he is a frequent contributor in other different media as political columnist including the capacity as moderator in debates, mediastrategist and writer. Featured articles Bengtsson has produced many feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johar Bendjelloul
Johar Bendjelloul (born 1 September 1975) is a Swedish television presenter and journalist. Since 2013, Bendjelloul has been hosting ''P1 Morgon'' at Sveriges Radio. Before that he was a television presenter at SVT1 for ''Gomorron Sverige'', ''Babel'', ''Kulturnyheterna'' and ''Aktuellt''. He has also done voice acting doing one of the characters in the children's movie ''Jack & Pedro''. Personal life Johar is the son of Algerian-born physician Hacène Bendjelloul and Swedish translator and painter Veronica Schildt, making him grandson of actor Henrik Schildt. His brother Malik Bendjelloul was an Academy Award-winning filmmaker for the documentary ''Searching for Sugar Man ''Searching for Sugar Man'' is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig B ....'' Malik committed suicide on 13 May 2014 after strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengt Bedrup
Bengt Erik Helge Bedrup (né Nilsson) (10 June 1928 – 27 March 2005) was a Swedish journalist and television personality. Career Bedrup was born at Maria Prästgårdsgata in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of managing director Helge Nilsson and his wife Karin (née Nygren). He attended ''Viggbyholmsskolan'' in Viggbyholm in 1945 and became at the age of 17 an employee at the newspaper ''Värmlands-Posten'' in Kristinehamn in 1945. The year after he came to the newspaper '' Norra Skåne'' in Hässleholm and then to ''Expressen'' in 1948. Bedrup became employed by the Swedish Radio in 1956 and by the Sveriges Television (SVT) in 1958. During the TV's breakthrough as a medium in the early 1960s, he became nationally famous as a sports journalist. Along with Bengt Grive and Sven "Plex" Pettersson, Bedrup was the first to be hired at SVT's sports editorial office, when it was started in 1960. In addition to this effort, he was together with Gun Hägglund the TV hosts of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. He wrote '' A Man Called Ove'' (2012), ''Things My Son Needs to Know about the World'' (2012), '' My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry'' (2013), ''Britt-Marie Was Here'' (2014), '' Beartown'' (2017), ''Us Against You'' (2018), '' Anxious People'' (2020), and ''The Winners'' (2022). The books were number one bestsellers in his home country of Sweden. Backman's books have been published in more than twenty-five languages. Biography Backman grew up in Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden. He has been writing for the Swedish newspaper ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'' and for the Swedish men's magazine, ''Moore Magazine.'' Backman debuted as a novelist in 2012 with ''A Man Called Ove.'' The novel was adapted as a film which premiered on December 25, 2015. The rights to his book ''Beartown'' were bought by Swedish production company, Filmlance, and are set to be adapted for television. Many of his books have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbjörn Axelman
Lars Gunnar Torbjörn Kullänger-Axelman (born 28 April 1932) is a Swedish TV producer, director and writer. Career Axelman was born in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the son of the bookseller Valdemar Axelman and his wife Märtha (née Engström). He passed ''studentexamen'' in Örebro in 1951 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and a Master of Philosophy degree from Uppsala University in 1956. Axelman did TV studies in England in 1956 and the United States in 1961 and 1966. Axelman was a journalist at ''Nerikes Allehanda'' and ''Tidningen Upsala'' periodically from 1952 to 1966 and was a producer at Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio from 1956 to 1985. He produced cultural programs ''Prisma'' from 1958 to 1961 and several programs together with the artist Ardy Strüwer and Lasse Åberg. Axelman was also a painter and book illustrator and held solo exhibitions in Uppsala in 1953 and 1954, Visby in 1983, 1985, 1987–1989, Stockholm 1986–1989, Grythyttan in 1987, Monaco in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Axell
Suzanne Axell, (born 27December 1955) is a Swedish journalist and television presenter. She has presented SVTs ''Fråga doktorn'' and she has worked as a journalist for ''Expressen'', ''Aftonbladet'' and ''Arbetet''. She has also worked for local radio in Uppland, Stockholm and for Sveriges Radios P4 station. Career In 1980, she started her career in media. For ten years she worked as a crime reporter for ''Expressen'' and as an entertainment reporter for ''Arbetet''. In 1990, she turned down a job at ''Aftonbladet'' to start working for local radio stations. She presented ''Parasollet'' at Radio Uppland, and she continued to work at that station for five years. After working at Radio Stockholm in her hometown Stockholm and Sveriges Radio, she started presenting the SVT daily show ''Go'kväll'' in 1999, recorded in Norrköping. She presented over 300 shows. Since 2003, she is the presenter of the health facts show ''Fråga doktorn'' on the same channel. Axel co-wrote the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
