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Bernstein Award Finalist Series: Åsne Seierstad | One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

In celebration of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, The New York Public Library invites finalist Åsne Seierstad for a conversation with Jessica Strand. Åsne Seierstad is nominated for her book One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway.

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister’s office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then moved to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of the country’s governing Labour Party. Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us examines violent extremism and how a society copes with homegrown evil in this definitive story of the terrible day and its reverberations, still felt today.

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, A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, and The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War. She lives in Oslo.











When: Mon., May. 16, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free, advanced registration recommended
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In celebration of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, The New York Public Library invites finalist Åsne Seierstad for a conversation with Jessica Strand. Åsne Seierstad is nominated for her book One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway.

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister’s office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then moved to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of the country’s governing Labour Party. Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us examines violent extremism and how a society copes with homegrown evil in this definitive story of the terrible day and its reverberations, still felt today.

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, A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, and The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War. She lives in Oslo.

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