Göran Jakob Rosenberg (born 11 October 1948) is a Swedish journalist and author.

Biography and career

Rosenberg was born in

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, the son of survivors of

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. He has written about his father's story and his childhood in the book '' A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz'' (2012). The book won the

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for literature in 2012 and has been translated in 12 languages. His personal history on Israel and Zionism ('Det förlorade landet', Bonniers 1996) has been published in German as 'Das Verlorene Land', Suhrkamp Jüdischer Verlag (1998), and in French as 'L'utopie perdue', Denoël (2000). Rosenberg worked at

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and

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between 1972 and 1989, from 1985 to 1989 as the Washington-based US correspondent of Swedish Television. In 1990 he founded the monthly

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'' Moderna Tider'', of which he was editor-in-chief until 1999. Between 1991 and 2011 he was a columnist at ''

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''. Between 2012 and 2023 he was a monthly columnist at

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. He currently writes essays, reviews and commentaries for the Swedish daily ''

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Awards and recognitions, selection

*1993

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*2000

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at the

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*2012

for ''A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz'' *2014

Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay for books translated into French. Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel *2022 ...

Essay for ''A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz''

Selected bibliography

*1991 – ''Friare kan ingen vara: den amerikanska idén från revolution till Reagan'' *1993 – ''Medborgaren som försvann'' *1994 – ''Da Capo al Fine'' *1996 –
Det förlorade landet -en personlig historia
' *2000 – ''Tankar om journalistik'' *2004 – ''Plikten, profiten och konsten att vara människa'' *2006 – ''Utan facit'' *2012 – '' A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz'' *2021 – '' Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek'' (The Unrequited Love of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis)

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Goran Living people 1948 births People from Södertälje Swedish male writers Swedish-language writers Swedish journalists Swedish Jews Swedish people of Polish-Jewish descent August Prize winners