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
political becoming psychological
There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
lying years people
If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.
thinking time-to-leave
I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.
running war risk
As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
war book writing
I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.
war four solve
Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
war believe lasts
I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
reality ifs
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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.
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.