Asne Seierstad
Asne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstadis a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 February 1970
CountryNorway
afghan behind came fall family happens life says scenes screen stories tv
The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.
reality ifs
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
iraq body decided
When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
book writing different
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
believe feelings innocent
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
afghanistan afghan ifs
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
names impossible difficult
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
book writing way
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
country eye trying
I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
book writing important
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
mean names risk
The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.
important fundamentals pillars
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
growing-up vacuums grows
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
war hands glasses
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.