Lisa Bjurwald

The award-winning Swedish journalist and author Lisa Bjurwald (b. 1978), currently political editor at Swedish daily VLT, has written non-fiction books such as The Maternity Ward Crisis, Europe’s Shame, The Perpetrator is a Policeman, Keyboard Warriors, and others. She specializes in international politics, Russia, far-right parties and women’s rights.

Bjurwald is an international lecturer on political extremism and propaganda and a regular contributor to Swedish and international media such as the EUobserver. Previously, she has been a foreign correspondent, an editorial writer at Sweden’s leading daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, an editor at Medievärlden magazine (Media World), and editor-in-chief of Författaren magazine (The Author), to name but a few.

She has been awarded and nominated for prestigious awards such as the Raoul Wallenberg Award and the European Parliament Journalist Prize.