Lena Sundström

Lena Amalia Kyoung Ran Sundström (born 8 March 1972) is a Swedish journalist and author. She writes news chronicles and writes for Swedish daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. She has also had her own column at ''Aftonbladet'' newspaper, ''Metro'' newspaper's Swedish editions, '' Mersmak'' and '' Dagens Arbete''.

Early life

Sundström was born in Seoul, South Korea, to an unknown mother and was found outside an orphanage on 8 April 1972. She was estimated to be about one month old at the time, and her birthdate was arbitrarily set at 8 March 1972 (one month earlier). She was adopted by a Swedish family when she was 6 months old. She studied in Kristianstad, and also continued to study media and communications in Lund and Copenhagen and journalism at Poppius journalistskola.

Career

She started her career as a journalist at '' Piteå-Tidningen'' newspaper, and made her debut as an author in 2005 with the release of the book ''Saker jag inte förstår och personer jag inte gillar'' (''Things I don't understand and people I don't like'').

Her second book, ''Känns det fint att finnas en dag till?'' (''Does it feel good to exist for one more day?''), was released in 2007. She has been a television presenter as well, presenting the TV4 investigative show ''Kalla fakta'' after Lennart Ekdal chose to leave the show.

In August 2009, she authored her third book, ''Världens lyckligaste folk'', about Denmark's tough policy concerning immigrants. In the same year, a documentary with the same name as the book aired on TV4; it was created by Sundström.

In 2013, her second documentary, called ''Dom kallas rasister'', was broadcast on TV4. In the same year her next book called ''Spår'' was published; this book is about two asylum seekers who in 2001 were deported by Sweden to Egypt where they were tortured by the regime.

Sundström won a number of prizes for her work including Guldspaden journalism award in 2009, the Gleerups literary award also in 2009, the Swedish Publicists' Association Publicistklubben award in 2010, the Torgny Segerstedts frihetspenna (Freedom pen) award in 2014 and the Jolopriset literary award in 2016.

Personal life

Sundström married Swedish singer Bo Sundström and has two daughters. In 2010, they competed together in the TV show ''På spåret'' where they were placed fifth. The couple divorced in 2016.

Works

*2005: ''Saker jag inte förstår – och personer jag inte gillar''
*2007: ''Känns det fint att finnas en dag till?''
*2009: ''Världens lyckligaste folk : en bok om Danmark''
*2013: ''Spår''

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Living people
1972 births
21st-century Swedish writers
Writers from Seoul
Swedish adoptees
Swedish newspaper journalists
Swedish people of South Korean descent
Swedish television presenters
Swedish women journalists
21st-century Swedish women writers
Swedish women television presenters