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Kajsa Norman

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As a writer, I’m fascinated by the way in which people and power structures act and react in extreme, politically charged environments, such as dictatorships and conflict zones.

At the age of 15 I left my hometown Hudiksvall in the north of Sweden and moved to Brazil. I’ve been on the road ever since, traversing all seven continents and living in over 20 different cities.

I began my writing career as editor-in-chief of the Mid Sweden University magazine in the year 2000. From there my trade as a journalist took me on extended assignments around the world. Besides various Swedish newspaper and magazine postings, I have covered finance as a reporter at The Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina and innovation as a journalist in Silicon Valley. I als As a writer, I’m fascinated by the way in which people and power structures act and react in extreme, politically charged environments, such as dictatorships and conflict zones.

At the age of 15 I left my hometown Hudiksvall in the north of Sweden and moved to Brazil. I’ve been on the road ever since, traversing all seven continents and living in over 20 different cities.

I began my writing career as editor-in-chief of the Mid Sweden University magazine in the year 2000. From there my trade as a journalist took me on extended assignments around the world. Besides various Swedish newspaper and magazine postings, I have covered finance as a reporter at The Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina and innovation as a journalist in Silicon Valley. I also spent a semester at Stanford University as an Innovation Journalism Fellow examining the impacts of technology on society.

My first book, about political prisoners in Cuba, was published in 2003 by Swedish publishing house Silc förlag. My second book, on the state of the opposition movement in Zimbabwe, came out in Swedish in 2010. It is also available in English under the title Give Me Cholera – Forging a Future for Zimbabwe.
In 2011 and 2012 I lived in South Africa where I researched Bridge Over Blood River, a non-fiction book about racism and the Afrikaners' fight for survival in the new South Africa. Renowned author and Africa expert Henning Mankell took an early interest in the project, becoming an important mentor to me. The book was published in Swedish in 2015, with a foreword by Mankell. In October 2016 it was published in English (by Hurst Publishers, in the UK and Oxford University Press (OUP) in the USA).

A Hero’s Curse – The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela came out in Swedish in 2015 and in English in 2017. It covers the rise and fall of Hugo Chávez and how the pursuit of heroism has defined Venezuelan politics.

In my latest book, Sweden’s Dark Soul – The Unravelling of a Utopia, I take a close look at my native Sweden, scrutinizing the repercussions of the Swedish herd mentality on our democratic institutions. What happens to a country when brand and ideology takes precedence over free speech, real debate, and true pluralism of opinion?

In between writing assignments I have served as press and information officer for the Swedish Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Mali, and as an election observer for the OSCE. I enjoy photography, outdoor recreation, and spending time with my family travelling the world. ...more

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