Jenny Nordberg
Jenny Nordberg is a New York-based, Swedish journalist best known for her book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (ISBN 978-0307952493) published by Crown Publishing Group (New York, NY) in 2014.
Life[edit]
She has B.A. from Stockholm University in Law and Journalism and an M.A. from Columbia University in Journalism in 2003.[1][2][3] She is a foreign correspondent for Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.[1][2]
She is also a writer and producer of documentary films on topics such as nuclear proliferation in Pakistan, refugees in Iraq, and how the global financial crisis has affected Europe.[1]
Awards[edit]
- Winner of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)[2][3]
- Salon 2014 Authors' Favorite Book (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- Buzzfeed's Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- A Business Insider Best Book of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- A Columbus Dispatch Best Book of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- A PopMatters Best Book of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- An FP Interrupted Best Book of 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- An IPI Global Observatory Recommended Book for 2015 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- A TruthDig Book of the Year, 2014 (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, Nonfiction (for The Underground Girls of Kabul)
- Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, 2010, for television documentary of Afghan women[1]
- Investigative Reporters and Editors award[1]
- Foreningen Gravande Journalister award[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Jenny Nordberg". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ a b "Jenny Nordberg, Harold Holzer and Dan Egan Win the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". nieman.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
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