Anna Troberg (born 9 April 1974 in

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) is a translator, author, and former party leader of the Swedish

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Early life and career

Troberg was born in

but moved to

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at a young age. She worked as the head of the Swedish branch of a publishing house. On 22 December 2015, Wikimedia Sweden announced Troberg as the new operations manager of Wikimedia Sweden effective 6 January 2016. In March 2017 she left that position to become the working chair of the Swedish union for employees in libraries, archives and museums.

Pirate Party

Troberg's entry into the

has been described as a complete ideological turnaround from the stances associated with her previous publishing career. She challenged the pirates with questions on her blog, and getting them answered to satisfaction, she decided that the pirates were right and that technology had superseded much of copyright law. Following this, she was invited to become active in the party at management level and was appointed deputy party leader in 2009. Having worked closely with the previous party leader

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for 18 months, she stepped up to the party leader position as he resigned on 1 January 2011. She considered one of her most important tasks to add more compassion to pirate politics and go beyond the technical focus. Troberg was considered to have a more polished appearance than her predecessor.

Bibliography

Caricaturing her career in the publishing business, she wrote released the novel '' Chefer från helvetet'' ("Bosses from Hell") under the

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''Rosetta Sten'' (which directly translates to

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in Swedish). Troberg is credited with translating 25 works into Swedish. Some are

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's books about Bunny Suicides,

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's autobiography '' Extreme'', Chris Bradford's Young Samurai novels, Simon Lewis's '' Bad Traffic'' and several novels by

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(''

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'', '' Lighthousekeeping'' and '' The Passion'').Sökning: pers:(Troberg Anna)

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. Retrieved 8 May 2011

References

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