Åsne Seierstad was born in Lillehammer, Norway on February 10, 1970. She studied Russian and philosophy at Oslo University, and worked as a foreign correspondent for several Scandinavian newspapers and TV stations in Russia, China, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United States. She is the author of the best-selling books The Bookseller of Kabul about Afghanistan, A Hundred and One Days, and With Their Backs to the World from Serbia.
