Ingrid Carlberg
Ingrid Carlberg (b. 1961) is a journalist and author based in Stockholm. She was awarded the 2012 August Prize for her biography of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who disappeared in Budapest in 1945 after organizing a rescue operation for the last remnants of Europe’s Jewish population. Carlberg was awarded the investigative journalism award The Golden Spade for her 2008 reportage book The Pill, and was appointed Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Uppsala University in 2009. Ingrid Carlberg is a member of The Swedish Academy. In 2020, Carlberg was awarded His Majesty the King's Medal for 'significant contributions as an author'. In 2023 The Academy of the Nine awarded Ingrid Carlberg with the Lotten von Kraemer Prize and in 2024 Ingrid Carlberg was awarded the Anna Lindh Prize as well as the Kerstin Ekman Award, the latter with the following motivation:
“An engaging and elucidative account of the development and increasingly widespread application of propaganda, from the Russian Revolution to the present day.”
A selection of books
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The Marionettes - A Story About the World as Political Theater
Original title: Marionetterna – en berättelse om världen som politisk teater
Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Original publisher: Norstedts, 2023
Genre: Non Fiction -
Nobel: The Enigmatic Alfred
Original title: Nobel: Den gåtfulle Alfred, hans värld och hans priser
Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Original publisher: Norstedts Förlag
Genre: Non Fiction -
Raoul Wallenberg
Original title: Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig – Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg
Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Original publisher: Norstedts Förlag
Genre: Non Fiction -