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Åsne Seierstad

June 2024

  • People standing on top of a wall helping others from the crowd below try to climb it.

    Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next

    An ex-UK envoy’s compelling account of the chaotic military withdrawal from the country is full of telling details, while Seierstad’s latest work drives home the cruel reality of women’s lives after the return of Taliban rule

May 2024

  • Åsne Seierstad sitting on a staircase

    ‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on

    The Norwegian writer on meeting the Taliban, her fears for girls’ education, and the legal battle that ensued after the publication of her bestselling book

March 2015

  • Tom McCarthy

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: One of Us, Tears of the Rajas, and Satin Island

    What the critics thought of Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us, Ferdinand Mount’s Tears of the Rajas and Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island

February 2015

  • Utoeya Island where Anders Behring Breivik shootings occured, Norway - 23 Aug 2011

    One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

    Family dysfunction, sexual failure, grotesque narcissism sad delusions and dreams of martyrdom – the chilling portrait of a killer. By Ian Buruma

May 2014

  • Northern light … the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård, who makes the list with My Struggle.

    Top 10s
    Dea Brøvig's top 10 Norwegian novels

    From Knut Hamsun's classic story of starvation to Karl Ove Knausgård's autobiographical opus, here is the novelist's pick of Norwegian books in translation

December 2011

  • Åsne Seierstad

    The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy

    Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, who spent months with bookseller Shah Muhammad Rais, tells of relief over ruling

July 2010

  • Asne Seierstad

    Saturday interview
    Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'

  • Asne Seierstad

    Bookseller of Kabul author can't plead cultural immunity

    Conor Foley

  • Corrections and clarifications
    Corrections and clarifications

  • Asne Seierstad author of The Bookseller of Kabul

    Author ordered to pay damages to wife of Bookseller of Kabul

July 2009

  • Real Bookseller of Kabul extends operation to UK

    The Afghan bookseller who inspired Asne Seierstad's bestseller has signed a deal to sell books into the UK

November 2008

  • Humanity shines through

    Review: The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya by Åsne Seierstad
    The reader is taken into the heart of the bloody conflict, writes Alexandra Masters

March 2008

  • Everyday terrors

  • When the Russian bear roared

  • Grozny's children

  • Where angels dare to tread

July 2006

  • Bookseller of Kabul's wife applies for asylum

    Suraya Rais, the wife of the title character in Åsne Seierstad's bestselling The Bookseller of Kabul, is applying for asylum in Europe because she claims the book has endangered her life.

December 2005

  • No way out

    Dusko Doder finds out how Serbs see themselves in Åsne Seierstad's With Their Backs to the World.

November 2005

  • Drawn from life

    Kim Bunce on The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

October 2005

  • This Norwegian would

    Asne Seierstad's timely The Bookseller of Kabul was an international bestseller. Following that with a dissection of modern Serbia is bound to lose her readers. But she doesn't mind

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