Jenny Nordberg
Jenny Nordberg is a New York-based, Swedish journalist best known for her book ''The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan published by Crown Publishing Group in 2014.
Life
She has B.A. from Stockholm University in Law and Journalism and an M.A. from Columbia University in Journalism in 2003. She is a foreign correspondent for Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.She is also a writer and producer of documentary films on topics such as nuclear proliferation in Pakistan, refugees in Iraq, and how the 2008 financial crisis affected Europe.
Awards
- Winner of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
- Salon 2014 Authors' Favorite Book
- BuzzFeed's Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
- A Business Insider Best Book of 2014
- A Columbus Dispatch Best Book of 2014
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
- A PopMatters Best Book of 2014
- An FP Interrupted Best Book of 2014
- An IPI Global Observatory Recommended Book for 2015
- A Truthdig Book of the Year, 2014
- Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, Nonfiction
- Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, 2010, for television documentary of Afghan women
- Investigative Reporters and Editors award
- Foreningen Gravande Journalister award