Background
Zaremba was born in Poznań, Poland.
Zaremba was born in Poznań, Poland.
He came to Sweden in 1969 where he worked as a construction worker during the 1970s. In his youth, he was active in the League Communist (Swedish: Förbundet Kommunist), but abandoned his communist views when the group was dissolved in 1982. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in the history of ideas from Stockholm University in 1988.
He started writing for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter in 1989 and in 1994 he was recruited to the editorial team of the now defunct magazine Moderna tider.
The article sparked much debate in Sweden and led to a government inquiry into the matter. In 2005 he wrote a series of articles about a labor dispute involving foreign construction workers in Vaxholm.
In 2005 he also received Gösta Bohman-stipendiet ("Gösta Bohman Award) and a prize from the Swedish Academy through its own funds. Zaremba has been married since 1982 to the author Agneta Pleijel.