Nina van den Brink

Nina Margita van den Brink (born 6 September 1966) is a Finland-Swedish[1][2] author and journalist from Sweden. She won the August Prize in 2022.[3]

The Swedish-speaking Finn van den Brink was born in bilingual Borgå (Finnish Porvoo), Finland. She moved to Sweden with her family as a child, and she holds dual citizenship of Finland and Sweden.[4][5] Van den Brink studied literature, film studies, French, economics, statistics, sociology and journalism. She has worked as a journalist with several Swedish publications including Dagens industri, Expressen, Computer Sweden, Internetworld and Situation Sthlm. Since 2016 she has worked for Fokus[6] where she became culture editor in 2018.[7]

In 2022, van den Brink published the book Jag har torkat nog många golv, a biography of Maja Ekelöf.[8] Göran Greider wrote that van den Brink managed to create a rare realistic sense of presence. He believed that the biography has prospects of becoming a classic like Ekelöf's debut book "Report from a Scouring-Pale" (Swedish: Rapport från en skurhink) (1970).[9] For the book, van den Brink was awarded the August Prize for fiction in 2022.[10]

Works

  • 2022 – "Jag har torkat nog många golv": en biografi om Maja Ekelöf, Norstedts, ISBN 9789113115474

References

  1. ^ "Augustvinnaren van den Brink till Önnestad". Norra Skåne (in Swedish).
  2. ^ "August-voittaja Stefan van den Brink muuttaa Skånesta Suomeen". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
  3. ^ Hon är finlandssvenskan som också vann Augustpriset i år
  4. ^ "Menestyskirjailija Nina van den Brink vierailee Porvoossa" [Bestselling author Nina van den Brink visits Porvoo]. Uusimaa (in Finnish). 5 September 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  5. ^ Majander, Mikko [in Swedish] (2023). "Sisaruksia, vaan ei kaksosia" [Siblings, but not twins] (PDF). Magma (in Finnish). p. 54. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  6. ^ Johan Hakelius värvar Nina van den Brink till Fokus i Dagens Media den 29 januari 2016
  7. ^ Leon Nudel: Nina van den Brink ny kulturredaktör
  8. ^ ”Biografin om Maja Ekelöf är en fantastisk berättelse” in Sveriges Television
  9. ^ Göran Greider (2022-04-03). ""En sällsamt realistisk närvarokänsla" - Göran Greider läser biografin över Maja Ekelöf, "Jag har torkat nog många golv" och anar en ny klassiker". Arbetarskydd. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  10. ^ Augustpris till Nina van den Brink för årets fackbok in Sveriges Radio
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