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
children war care
Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
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.
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.
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.
war believe lasts
I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
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.
names impossible difficult
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
afghanistan afghan ifs
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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.
book writing different
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
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.
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.