Author and journalist Ingrid Carlberg discusses her award-winning biography about Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman whose heroism in Budapest during the Holocaust saved countless Jewish lives. Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Sweden.
Ingrid Carlberg is a Swedish author and journalist who worked at Sweden’s most renowned daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1990 to 2010, specializing in investigative and narrative journalism. Her biography of Raoul Wallenberg was first published under the title There Is a Room Here Waiting for You... (Norstedts, 2012) and was awarded the August Prize for the best Swedish work of non-fiction in 2012 as well as the Swedish Academy's Axel Hirsch Prize in 2013 for "a biography of considerable artistic and cultural history merit." Former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi A. Annan wrote a special introduction for the Quercus edition, the first to be published in English. In January 2008, her book Pillret (The Pill, Norstedts, 2008) was awarded the Guldspaden, a prize for the best work of investigative journalism.
