Pia Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul (born 20 May 1944, in
Stockholm
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) is a Swedish translator.
Born Veronica Schildt, she belonged to the Finnish Assembly (Finska församlingen, a non-territorial assembly in Swedish church primarily serving Sweden Finns in the Stockholm diocese). she finished her matriculation in a school for girls in Stockholm in 1964, and later studied at
Stockholm University
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receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1971.
Personal life
She worked as a translator, translating notably the
comics
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series ''
Isabelle
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'' and '' Lucky Luke'' to Swedish. She also translated literary books like Agatha Christie mysteries.
Veronica Schildt comes from an artistic family background. Her father
Henrik Schildt
Henrik Schildt (10 July 1914 – 15 March 2001) was a Finnish-born Swedish film actor.Goble p.150 He is the father of Johan Schildt, Peter Schildt and Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul.
Selected filmography
* '' Johan Ulfstjerna'' (1936)
* ''Circus ...
Peter Schildt
Ernst Peter Jurgen Schildt (born 9 June 1951 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, film director, theatre director, etc. Schildt began acting at Vår teater, a children's theatre in Stockholm, as a child. He participated in theatre ...
, and half-brother Johan Schildt were established names in theater, film and television.
She took the name of Bendjelloul after marrying Hacène Bendjelloul, an Algerian-born chief physician at the hospital in Helsingborg hospital. The couple had two children,
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'', '' ...
born in 1975 who became a well-known Swedish television presenter and journalist and
Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul (14 September 1977 – 13 May 2014) was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and former child actor.Rohter, Larry (20 July 2012)Retrieved 26 February 2013.Searching for Sugar Man''. Malik committed suicide on 13 May 2014 after struggling with depression.