Kerstin ekman biography of barack
Berlin: European Channels Team Up for ‘Blackwater’ Series
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has teamed up with Germany’s ARD Degeto and ITV Studios in Britain on a new event series based on Blackwater, an award-winning crime novel from Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman.
Piv Bernth, the producer of international sensation The Killing, will produce Blackwater through her ITV-backed Apple Tree Productions shingle. Maren Louise Kaehne (The Bridge) will adapt Ekman’s novel for the small screen with Pernilla August (The Legacy) directing.
ARD Degeto and Sweden’s Filmpool Nord will co-produce. ITV Studios will sell the show internationally and is shopping it to buyers at this week’s Berlinale Series market in Berlin.
Blackwater has pre-sold across Scandinavia, with public broadcasters DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland and RUV in Iceland securing the show for their respective networks.
Ekman’s novel opens on a midsummer’s night in the 1970 when Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder. Two tourists were murdered in their tent, far up in the mountains of North Sweden. The novel is told through multiple points of view.
First published in 1993, Blackwater is considered a modern-day crime classic. It has won numerous literary awards, including Sweden’s August Prize, the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award.
Blackwater will be Apple Tree’s second production, following Equinox, a six-part supernatural thriller series currently shooting in Copenhagen for Netflix.
Michelle : A Biography
She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today. She shows how well they complement each other: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; Barack, the introspective political charmer who won't pick up his socks but shoots for the stars. Their relationship, like those of many couples with two careers and two children, has been so strained at times that he has had to persuade her to support his climb up the political ladder. And you can't blame her for occasionally regretting it: In this campaign, it is Michelle who has absorbed much of the skepticism from voters about Obama. One conservative magazine put her on the cover under the headline "Mrs. Grievance."
Michelle's story carries with it all the extraordinary achievements and lingering pain of America in the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, the daughter of a city worker and a stay-at-home mom in a neighborhood rocked by white flight. She was admitted to Princeton amid an angry debate about affirmative action and went on to Harvard Law School, where she was more comfortable doing pro-bono work for the poor than gunning for awards with the rest of her peers. She became a corporate lawyer, then left to train community leaders. She is modern in her tastes but likes to watch reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Brady Bunch.
In this carefully reported biography, drawing upon interviews with more than one hundred people, including one with Michelle herself, Mundy captures the complexity of this remarkable woman and the remarkable life she has lived.
Author talks, literary lectures and other activities in the Literary Agenda
On May 20, 2021, students, faculty and staff went on a city walk to learn about the connections between slavery and today´s economy after having read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi in the Literary Agenda. The city walk “In the footsteps of the slave trade” was made by The Afro Swedish National Society (Afrosvenskarnas riksförbund).
November 5, 2018, The author Theodor Kallifatides visited the school to talk about his book Another Life.
February 14, 2019, The author Johannes Anyuru was interviewed by Alan Shima on his book A Storm Blew In From Paradise.
March 25, 2019, Maria Schottenius spoke about Kerstin Ekman’s book Blackwater (part of the first years reading list). Maria Schottenius, PhD, wrote her dissertation on Kerstin Ekman’s authorship and has become a close friend to the author.
March 26, 2019, Jennifer Clement, President of PEN International and an internationally acclaimed fiction author translated to more than 30 languages, had a conversation with Jesper Bengtsson, Chairman of Swedish PEN. This event was the first co-produced literary lecture with International Författarscen.
April 25, 2019, Susanna Romanus and Yukiko Duke had a literary talk together with Lovisa Fhager Havdelin, General Secretary of Teskedsorden. Teskedsorden is a not for profit organization that promotes human rights and democracy, and the literary talk discussed issues of how gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation are represented in literature.
May 17, 2019, Pamela Schultz Nybacka, PhD, Head of the Cultural Management Program at Södertörn University and Head of the Publishing Studies Program at Stockholm University, gave a lecture on the organization of the Swedish literary field and the relationships between the author, the publisher, the publishing Kerstin is a female German and Swedish given name; it is the European version of Christina. Notable persons with this name include: Kerstin
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