About

I’m a Swedish journalist returned home after many years working abroad. Journalism appealed from an early age — my mother worked nights at Svenska Dagbladet, one of the big dailies in Stockholm, where she manned the newspaper packing machines. She sometimes brought me along; on those nights I was Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, swirling on scooters pushed by print workers, showed around the basement where the bales of paper rolls rose like high-rises all the way up to the ceiling. I would stare at the metal sheets being set with tiny letters that were miraculously printed on to the pages inside the thousands of newspapers that ended up packaged in my mother’s machine — from where they were spat out to trucks waiting to deliver the morning paper across Sweden. I was awestruck by the enormity of the place and by the fact that so much work went into getting those words onto paper and out to readers. I wanted to make newspapers too. 

Years later, I did get to be part of making newspapers and magazines. After graduating from a London-based university with a degree in journalism, and a masters in Middle Eastern politics and history — and a brief stint working for the newspaper The Daily Star in Beirut — I joined the editorial team putting out issue one of the magazine Monocle. Climbing the ranks from editorial assistant to associate editor and then on to Hong Kong bureau chief, I was tasked with opening Monocle’s first new overseas newsroom. From Hong Kong, I covered China, Asia and Australia in print, on radio and in film, while concurrently creating and editing a custom publication for a local client.

Nowadays, I’m based back home, and work for Monocle in my role as Stockholm correspondent. I’ve delved into Swedish news at the public service broadcaster Swedish Radio and published freelance work in magazines such as Kinfolk and Konfekt.

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