Anna-Lena Laurén is the former Moscow correspondent, and current Berlin correspondent, for Dagens Nyheter and Hufvudstadsbladet.
In 2003, she was the youngest ever recipient of the Topelius Prize for journalism in Finland. She also received the Publicistklubben prize – the ‘Golden Pen’ – in Sweden in 2015 and the Karin Gierow prize of Svenska Akademien in 2016. She has written several books of the subject of Eastern Europe and Russia. She has recently published the collection Medan kriget pågår finns ingen försoning, combining a selection of Laurén’s newspaper articles with entirely new material.
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