Göran Rosenberg

Göran Rosenberg studied at Stockholm University and School of Journalism of Stockholm University. The recorded working language is Swedish. The field of work recorded is journalism. Employment is recorded with Moderna tider and Dagens Nyheter. Works named in the authority record are A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz. Distinctions recorded are Stora Journalistpriset, Lotten von Kræmer Award, August Prize and honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg.

• Name — Göran Rosenberg • Born — 11 October 1948 • Birthplace — Södertälje, Sweden • Occupation — Writer and journalist • Partner — Jayne Svenungsson • Website — www.rosenberg.se

Rosenberg was born in Södertälje, Sweden, the son of survivors of the Holocaust. He has written about his father's story and his childhood in the book A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (2012). The book won the August Prize for literature in 2012 and has been translated in 12 languages. His personal history on Israel and Zionism ('Det förlorade landet', Bonniers 1996) has been published in German as 'Das Verlorene Land', Suhrkamp Jüdischer Verlag (1998), in French as 'L'utopie perdue', Denoël (2000), and in English as Israel, a Personal History (2025). Rosenberg worked at Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television between 1972 and 1989, from 1985 to 1989 as the Washington-based US correspondent of Swedish Television. In 1990 he founded the monthly magazine Moderna Tider, of which he was editor-in-chief until 1999. Between 1991 and 2011 he was a columnist at Dagens Nyheter. Between 2012 and 2023 he was a monthly columnist at Swedish Radio. He currently writes essays, reviews and commentaries for the Swedish daily Expressen.