Åsne Seierstad

Åsne performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on April 25, 2018, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Also Known As.”

Åsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of The Bookseller of Kabul, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, One of Us, and her new book Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad.

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