Maria-Pia Boëthius (born 1947) is a Swedish journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and activist. She worked as a journalist for the newspaper ''
Expressen
''Expressen'' (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden, the other being '' Aftonbladet''. ''Expressen'' was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "''Expressen'' to your rescue".
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'' from 1968 to 1978. Among her books are ''Skylla sig själv'' from 1976 (on rape), ''Heder och samvete'' from 1991 (on
Swedish neutrality during World War II
Sweden maintained Swedish neutrality, its policy of neutrality during World War II. When the war began on 1 September 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear. But by a combination of its geopolitics, geopolitical location in the Scandinavian Peni ...
), and ''Mediernas svarta bok'' from 2001.
She made her fiction debut in 1979 with the novel ''Svensson, Svensson'', a reply to
Ulf Lundell's novel ''Jack''.
Boëthius was awarded Ture Nerman-priset in 1998 and Dan Andersson-priset in 2002.
Boëthius has written a lot about World War II and totalitarian ideologies. In an article in ETC 2013, she criticized the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård for not reading Hitler's Mein Kampf properly and for being ignorant of the Second World War.
In 2012, she took part in the
Ship to Gaza mission with
SV ''Estelle''.
References
1947 births
Living people
Swedish journalists
Swedish non-fiction writers
Swedish women non-fiction writers
Swedish women novelists
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