Nina Margita van den Brink (born 6 September 1966) is a Finland-Swedish author and journalist from Sweden. She won the August Prize in 2022.Hon är finlandssvenskan som också vann Augustpriset i år
The Swedish-speaking Finn van den Brink was born in bilingual Borgå (Finnish Porvoo), Finland. She moved to Sweden with her family as a child, and she holds dual citizenship of Finland and Sweden. Van den Brink studied literature, film studies, French, economics, statistics, sociology and journalism. She has worked as a journalist with several Swedish publications including Dagens industri, Expressen, Computer Sweden, Internetworld and Situation Sthlm. Since 2016 she has worked for FokusJohan Hakelius värvar Nina van den Brink till Fokus i Dagens Media den 29 januari 2016 where she became culture editor in 2018.Leon Nudel: Nina van den Brink ny kulturredaktör
In 2022, van den Brink published the book Jag har torkat nog många golv, a biography of Maja Ekelöf.”Biografin om Maja Ekelöf är en fantastisk berättelse” in Sveriges Television Göran Greider wrote that van den Brink managed to create a rare realistic sense of presence. He believed that the biography has prospects of becoming a classic like Ekelöf's debut book "Report from a Scouring-Pale" () (1970). For the book, van den Brink was awarded the August Prize for fiction in 2022.Augustpris till Nina van den Brink för årets fackbok in Sveriges Radio
Works
2022 – "Jag har torkat nog många golv": en biografi om Maja Ekelöf, Norstedts, ISBN 9789113115474
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