Annette Kullenberg

Elsa Caroline Annette Kullenberg was a Swedish journalist and author.

Biography

Kullenberg was born in Stockholm. She studied philosophy at Uppsala University, and started working as a journalist in the early 1960s. She worked at Aftonbladet for 25 years and quit in 2002 after a conflict with the editor-in-chief Anders Gerdin regarding the content of a column about Princess Madeleine of Sweden. The conflict started when Gerdin, without informing Kullenberg, modified the content of the column, downplaying the princess' problematic alcohol consumption. Moreover, Kullenberg served as a foreign correspondent stationed in Buenos Aires and Barcelona for six years. She was also the chairman of the Swedish publicist club between 1994 and 1997.
Kullenberg's first novel was Vänd på dig, and her second book, Överklassen i Sverige, was released in 1974, followed by Urp! sa överklassen in 1995. She also worked as a dramatist with a dozen radio and television plays to her credit.
Since 2009, Kullenberg wrote columns for Expressen.
Kullenberg died on 28 January 2021, at the age of 82, after contracting COVID-19, in Hospital de Cascais in Portugal, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Her brother Claes Borgström died from the same disease in Stockholm on 15 May 2020.