Background
Åsa Linderborg was born in the city of Västerås, where she also grew up. Her father worked as a metalworker and her mother, Tanja Linderborg, is a former politician and Member of Parliament for the Left Party.
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Asa Linderborg
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Linderborg graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Uppsala University in 2001 with the dissertation Socialdemokraterna skriver historia: Historieskrivning som ideologisk maktresurs ("Social Democrats Write History: History Writing Used as an Ideological Power Resource"), about the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
Career
She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editors In 1987 she became an ombudsman for the Communist Youth in Mälardalen. Mig äger ingen (Nobody owns me), was released.
The book received good reviews and was nominated for in the category best Swedish-language novel of the year.
The book was later the basis for a film of the same name starring Mikael Persbrandt. On 27 March 2008, Linderborg was presented as the new deputy cultural editor of Aftonbladet, with Karin Magnusson becoming the chief cultural editors
In 2009 Linderborg replaced Magnusson as chief cultural editors Shortly after she moved into this position, the Aftonbladet-Israel controversy erupted to due an article published in Aftonbladet"s culture pages on alleged Israeli organ harvesting from Palestinians.
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Membership
Åsa Linderborg herself became a member of the Left Party – Communists in 1980 and the following year of its youth wing, the Communist Youth.
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