Åsa Natacha Linderborg (

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Andersson, born 20 May 1968) is a Swedish

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and

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. She writes regularly for ''

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'', where she works as chief cultural editor. Åsa Linderborg was born in the city of

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, where she also grew up. Her father worked as a metalworker and her mother, Tanja Linderborg, is a former politician and Member of Parliament for the Left Party. Åsa Linderborg herself became a member of the Left Party – Communists in 1980 and the following year of its youth wing, the Communist Youth. In 1987, she became an

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for the Communist Youth in Mälardalen. Linderborg graduated with a Ph.D. in

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from

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in 2001 with the dissertation ''Socialdemokraterna skriver historia: Historieskrivning som ideologisk maktresurs'' ("Social Democrats Write History: History Writing Used as an Ideological Power Resource"), about the

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. ''Mig äger ingen'' (Nobody Owns Me), was released. The book received good reviews and was nominated for the August Prize in the category best Swedish-language novel of the year. The book was later the basis for a film of the same name starring

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. On 27 March 2008, Linderborg was presented as the new deputy cultural editor of ''Aftonbladet'', with Karin Magnusson becoming the chief cultural editor. In 2009 Linderborg replaced Magnusson as chief cultural editor. Shortly after she moved into this position, the Aftonbladet-Israel controversy erupted due to an article published in Aftonbladet's culture pages on alleged Israeli

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from Palestinians. In 2017, accusations of misconduct were published under her responsibility against the theatre director

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,Christine Lemke-Matwey: Der Fall Fredriksson. Chronologie eines Versagens. In: Die Zeit vom 26. Juli 2018, S. 36–37 forcing him to resign, and apparently leading to his suicide three months later.

Awards

* 2007 – ABF:s litteraturpris * 2007 – BMF-plaketten * 2007 – Lundequistska bokhandelns litteraturpris * 2008 –

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References

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