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Norwegian war reporter Asne Seierstad to discuss latest book

By Kristina Boyer '05
April 16, 2005

Norwegian journalist and best-selling author of Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad will lecture and promote her latest book, A Hundred and One Days, at St. Olaf on Monday, April 18 at 4 p.m. in the Buntrock Commons Viking Theater.

Sponsored by the St. Olaf Norwegian Department, the talk will feature Seierstad discussing her experiences as a war reporter and the time she spent in Baghdad before, during and after the American/British Invasion in the spring of 2003.

Seierstad, the only woman in the world to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the bombings of Baghdad in 2003, has reported from war-torn regions such as Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. She has won accolades internationally and in the American press.

Her first book, Bookseller of Kabul, has been translated into 26 languages and spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

For more information regarding Seierstad's lecture, which is free and open to the public, contact St. Olaf Norwegian Department Chair Margaret O'Leary, at 507-646-3569, or oleary@stolaf.edu.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-646-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.