Åsa Linderborg made her novel debut in 2007 with the childhood story "I own no one" The new novel is about the cultural director Linderborg who for 13 dramatic months is in the middle of the storm's eye and ends up on a collision course with the cultural left and a lot of liberals. At the same time, her love life is collapsing.

- It is an incredibly dramatic and sad year in many ways, privately and professionally, says Åsa Linderborg.

Day by day, she presents her thoughts and reflections on the ongoing battles. It starts with the battle over the right-wing extremist newspaper Nya Tider. Åsa Linderborg defends the newspaper's right to be at the Gothenburg Book Fair. 

- I did it despite the fact that their opinions are completely hateful to me and despite the fact that I have lived with a threat and then lived in an apartment with security windows, but I still took that fight.

Bad debate climate

Åsa Linderborg believes that the book fair battle set the tone for the next debate. The one about metoo with terrible contradictions.

- I think we are bad at Sweden in discussing. It is very bad or good, black or white. There are few who try to look for or affirm the gray areas.

Linderborg calls for a debate on the media's actions during metoo.

- The surveillance became so person-fixed at once that instead of talking about the structures that metoo claims to want, it was the people they marked.

Regrets their trampling

She herself deeply regrets the text she wrote about Stadsteatern's former CEO Benny Fredriksson who took his life after, and according to some due to, Aftonbladet's controversial review. 

- I think the whole book is a self-settlement with the fact that I, who criticized others, do so and do not really understand what happened. It shows a little grand in the power of the revolution perhaps. Those were terrible days.  

The review was approved last year by the press opinion committee and the publication about Benny Fredriksson. The paper was also condemned for another notable publication - about the Russian researcher Martin Kragh who was wrongly singled out as a spy for the British intelligence service.

Criticized again

Today, Åsa Linderborg lives a calmer life as a senior reporter. But now the female place is accused of conducting a kind of cozy journalism, completely without critical questions in an interview with Svenska Dagbladet's controversial editorial writer, Ivar Arpi. A criticism she completely rejects. 

- If I had interviewed Ivar Arpi about his world of ideas, I would have asked critical questions. But I'm talking to him about his childhood. It is very difficult to ask critical questions about it, says Åsa Linderborg.

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