Åsa Linderborg

Åsa Linderborg (b 1968, Sweden) is a Swedish author, historian and writer on culture. She secured a PhD from Uppsala University in 2001, and when young was an activist in the Left Party ­– the Communists and in the Young Communists. She was culture editor of Aftonbladet in 2009-19.

Her debut novel, Mig äger ingen (2007), was nominated for the August Prize and won great acclaim for its powerful and autobiographical description of her upbringing with an alcoholic father. Linderborg’s second novel, Året med 13 månader – En dagbok, in 2020, introduces the reader to her diaries from the autumn of 2017 to the autumn of 2018 – a stormy period for the author both privately and professionally.