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Nina van den Brink

Nina Margita van den Brink (born 6 September 1966) is a Finnish-Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2022. [1]

Born in Porvoo, van den Brink studied literature, film studies, French, economics, statistics, sociology and journalism. She has worked as a journalist with several Swedish publications including Dagens industri , Expressen , Computer Sweden , Internetworld and Situation Sthlm . Since 2016 she has worked for Fokus [2] where she became culture editor in 2018. [3]

In 2022, van den Brink published the book Jag har torkat nog många golv, a biography of Maja Ekelöf. [4] Göran Greider wrote that van den Brink managed to create a rare realistic sense of presence. He believed that the biography has prospects of becoming a classic like Ekelöf's debut book "Report from a Scouring-Pale" (Swedish : Rapport från en skurhink) (1970). [5] For the book, van den Brink was awarded the August Prize for fiction in 2022. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Hon är finlandssvenskan som också vann Augustpriset i år
  2. ↑ Johan Hakelius värvar Nina van den Brink till Fokus i Dagens Media den 29 januari 2016
  3. ↑ Leon Nudel: Nina van den Brink ny kulturredaktör
  4. ↑ ”Biografin om Maja Ekelöf är en fantastisk berättelse” in Sveriges Television
  5. ↑ Göran Greider (2022-04-03). ""En sällsamt realistisk närvarokänsla" - Göran Greider läser biografin över Maja Ekelöf, "Jag har torkat nog många golv" och anar en ny klassiker". Arbetarskydd. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  6. ↑ Augustpris till Nina van den Brink för årets fackbok in Sveriges Radio
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