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Åsne Seierstad

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in Oslo, Norway

February 10, 1970

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Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
She is fluent in five languages and lives in Norway.

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	The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,698 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway 4.43 avg rating — 13,003 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To søstre 4.21 avg rating — 7,306 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal 3.92 avg rating — 2,186 ratings — published 2003 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love, and Revolt 4.29 avg rating — 1,956 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Åsne Seierstad, Nadia Christensen (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne Seierstad, Sindre Kartvedt (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 993 ratings — published 2000 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ufred. Russland fra innsiden 4.53 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Det skjer nå - fortellinger fra en feministisk revolusjon by Helena Brodtkorb (Editor), Sofia Nesrine Srour, Åsa Linderborg 3.98 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt by Åsne Seierstad, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.”
― Asne Seirstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

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“What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.”
― Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

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“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did not calcualte in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet?”
― Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

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