Nina Margita van den Brink (born 6 September 1966) is a Finland-Swedish [1] [2] author and journalist from Sweden. She won the August Prize in 2022. [3]
The Swedish-speaking Finn van den Brink was born in bilingual Borgå (Finnish Porvoo), Finland. She moved to Sweden with her family as a child, and she holds dual citizenship of Finland and Sweden. [4] [5] 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 [6] where she became culture editor in 2018. [7]
In 2022, van den Brink published the book Jag har torkat nog många golv, a biography of Maja Ekelöf. [8] 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). [9] For the book, van den Brink was awarded the August Prize for fiction in 2022. [10]
