Ingrid Kristina Carlqvist (born 9 November 1960) is a Swedish journalist and member of the white supremacist organization Asatru Folk Assembly. According to

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, Carlqvist is a far-right extremist with close ties to the white supremacist milieu in Sweden.

Early life

Carlqvist was born on 9 November 1960 in Vantör Township, and was raised in

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. She studied at the School of Journalism in Gothenburg.

Career

In 2009, Carlqvist was fired by the magazine ''Villaliv'', and in 2011 she was fired by the newspaper

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. According to Carlqvist, she was fired from Barometern for blogging in defense of the

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, which at the time was the youth league of the Sweden Democrats. In July 2012, she founded the Swedish language news-sheet '' Dispatch International'' with

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, which was distributed by the Sweden Democrats as part of its election campaign. The publication's general theme was

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, and its stated purpose was, according to Carlqvist, "to report what was not being reported" in the Swedish mainstream media with regard to

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mass immigration into Swedish society. She was employed by the

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until 2016. In the United Kingdom's politics she endorsed

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for the

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, who came in second place. Carlqvist has been described as engaging in

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Publications

*2005 – ''Ego girl'' (with

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) *2009 – ''Ego woman'' (with Carolina Gynning) *2009 – ''Inte utan mina söner'' *2009 – ''Ljusfolket'' (with

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) *2010 – ''

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och jag'' *2010 – ''Mellan himmel och jord'' (with Benny Rosenqvist) *2012 – ''Horungen'' *2012 – ''Mina år med Bin Ladens'' (with

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) *2012 – ''Din innersta fruktan'' (with Benny Rosenqvist) *2018 – ''Från Sverige till Absurdistan''

References

External links

''Dispatch International''Carlqvist's English-language workOfficial Website of Ingrid Carlqvist
1960 births Living people Swedish journalists Anti-Islam sentiment in Sweden Swedish modern pagans Swedish Holocaust deniers People from Helsingborg {{Sweden-journalist-stub