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Åsne Seierstad is a journalist and writer.

Åsne Seierstad's new book, One of Us, offers a definitive account of this tragic episode in Norway's history.

With an impressive cool she has narrated daily life in Baghdad, Kabul and Chechnya, and written globally acclaimed books about places that would perhaps remain.

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Åsne Seierstad – The fearless narrator

She has reported some of the world’s most gruesome wars and conflicts from places few of us would venture unflustered. With an impressive cool she has narrated daily life in Baghdad, Kabul and Chechnya, and written globally acclaimed books about places that would perhaps remain unexplained without her dedicated storytelling. Still, even the most avid admirers of Åsne Seierstad know her best through newspapers, TV screens and books. Scan Magazine’s Julie Lindén sat down with the award-winning journalist and author to learn more about the woman behind the mysterious calm, the never-ending search for stories – and her most emotionally challenging work yet…

Vanity has no place in Åsne Seierstad’s world. This is the first thing I learn about her as she greets me in the doorway of her red Oslo villa. “I’m doing a bit of gardening oday,” she says with a short laugh, her jeans somewhat stained by dirt. “You’ve got to make the most of your free time.” Indeed. Having just arrived home from the Sydney Writers’ Festival a few days before our meeting (after which she made a pit stop in London to appear at a Q&A with Frontline Club), she is already packing her bags for San Francisco. “I don’t leave until tomorrow morning at 10

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Åsne Seierstad

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With Their Backs To The World: Portraits From Serbia, by Asne Seierstad, translated by Sindre Kartvedt

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Åsne Seierstad

A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, published by Virago

Biography: ÅSNE SEIERSTAD

The Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad's second book, The Bookseller of Kabul, has now been translated into a total of 29 languages. Thanks in part to its selection by Richard & Judy's book club on Channel 4, it topped the non-fiction charts in Britain. Seierstad was born in 1970 in Lillehammer to Froydis Guldahl, author of a bestselling feminist book for girls, and Dag Seierstad, a political scientist. She left home to study Russian and philosophy in Oslo. Before becoming Norwegian television's best-known war correspondent and a bestselling author, Seierstad learnt Chinese and worked as a Russian translator. She covered conflicts in Chechnya, Serbia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where she lived in Kabul with the family who inspired her book. She has received numerous awards in Norway and abroad for her journalism. Her first book was With their Backs to the Wall: Portraits from Serbia, and this week Virago publishes A Hundred and One Days: a Baghdad Journal.

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