Elisabeth Åsbrink

Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink (born 29 April 1965) is a Swedish author and journalist.

Biography Åsbrink made her debut with the book Smärtpunkten – Lars Norén, pjäsen Sju tre och morden i Malexander. The book was nominated for the August Prize for non-fiction in 2009, and is translated into Polish.

In August 2011, she released the book Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar based on 500 letters written to a young boy from his family in Vienna after he had fled to Sweden in 1939 as a refugee from the Nazis. The book received a lot of attention as it revealed new information about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad that he had been placed under surveillance by the security police. This was followed by the plays Pojken och det sjungande trädet and Dr Alzheimer. On 13 July 2010, Åsbrink was the host of the radio show Sommar i P1 on Swedish Public Radio, Sveriges Radio.

In 2016, Åsbrink published the non-fiction title 1947, which was nominated for the August Prize in that year. This biography of a year has been published in many other languages, including English (as 1947: When Now Begins, translated by Fiona Graham and published by Scribe in the UK and by Other Press in the US and Canada).

Her latest book, Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas that Created a Country, was published in Australia by Scribe in 2019.