Åsne Seierstad
 Åsne Seierstad     ( journalist, writer) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 February 1970 Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Oslo University | |||||||||||||||
| Partner | Trygve Seim | |||||||||||||||
| Parents | • Frøydis Guldahl • Dag Seierstad | |||||||||||||||
Norwegian journalist and writer
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Åsne Guldahl Seierstad is a Norwegian journalist and writer.[1]
Background
Seierstad was born in Oslo, but grew up in Lillehammer, Norway, to "a feminist author mother", Lector Frøydis Guldahl, and "a leftist politician father", Assistant Professor Dag Seierstad (b. 1936)[2][3]
Education
She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo where she majored in Russian, Spanish and history of ideas.
Career
From 1993 until 1996, she reported for the Arbeiderbladet. She lived in Russia from 1993 to 1996, where she covered the war in Chechnya. In 1997, she was a reporter in China. From 1998 to 2000 she for the state channel NRK, covering the war in Kosovo. Since then, she has covered both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq during the US invasion in 2003 for both Norwegian and Swedish television.
Seierstad is fluent in five languages, and has "a good working knowledge" of another four.[3]
Published works
All her works conspicuously follows the official narratives about these conflicts; all of which were of high interest to Western intelligence agencies.
- With Their Backs to The World: Portraits of Serbia (2000, updated extensively in 2004); around the time of the US/NATO regime change against Slobodan Milosevic
- The Bookseller of Kabul (2002, English translation 2003)
- One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal (2005)
- Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya (2007) where the Chechens are "freedom fighters" while the only good Russians are the the wounded war veterans abandoned by the government
- One of Us. The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway (2015)- following the official narrative of a "lone wolf" attack exactly. Followed up with a hatchet job in Newsweek on Hans Rustad. editor of the right-wing website Document.no.[4]
- Ugbad and Rahma Sadiq|Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad
- The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt (2022)
- ''Ufred: Russland fra innsiden (2025) reinforcing the enemy image of Russia after the 2022 Russia Ukraine war.
