Elisabeth Asbrink

Elisabeth Åsbrink is a journalist and author. Her parents were Hungarian and English, and she was born and raised in, and now lives in, Sweden. Her book And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain received worldwide attention for revealing new information about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's ties to Nazism. It won several awards, including the August Prize for Best Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2011). Her most recent book, 1947, won the prestigious Letterstedt Prize, was translated into 19...See more

Elisabeth Åsbrink is a journalist and author. Her parents were Hungarian and English, and she was born and raised in, and now lives in, Sweden. Her book And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain received worldwide attention for revealing new information about IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's ties to Nazism. It won several awards, including the August Prize for Best Swedish Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2011). Her most recent book, 1947, won the prestigious Letterstedt Prize, was translated into 19 languages, and published in the USA in 2018 by Other Press. See less