Katrine Marçal

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Katrine Marçal

Katrine Linda Mathilda Marçal (née Kielos; born 24 October 1983[1]) is a Swedish writer, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

Biography[]

Marçal earlier served as chief editorialist of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet where she mainly wrote articles about Swedish and international financial politics and feminism. She has a Bachelor's degree from Uppsala universitet[2] and has also been a freelance writer for Expressen's culture page.[3] In 2013, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter awarded Marçal the third annual Lagercrantzen prize for critics.[3] She received the Jolo-prize for journalism in 2015.

Marçal's book Det enda könet, which discusses the relationship between economics and patriarchy, was nominated for the August Prize in 2012.[4] An English translation by Saskia Vogel was published in the United Kingdom under the title Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?.[5] The book has since been translated to 20 languages. Margaret Atwood called it “A smart, funny, readable book on economics, money [and] women.”.[6]

In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[7]

Marçal has interviewed leading economists and investors like Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Steve Eisman as part of her work for the Swedish financial news channel EFN. Her interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the European debt crisis has been viewed more than 1 million times on YouTube.

Personal life[]

It was reported in 2012 that she was living in Hertfordshire, England.[8] Since 2014, she has been married to British garden designer Guy Marçal, from whom she took her current surname.[9]

Bibliography[]

  • 2012 – Det enda könet (Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?) ISBN 978-91-0012-461-8
  • 2021 – Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men ISBN 978-00-0843-077-1

References and sources[]

  1. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrine-marcal
  2. ^ Mikael Marklund: Kielos gillar det enkla tilltalet Medievärden, 17 May 2010 (in Swedish)
  3. ^ a b Wiman, Björn (5 February 2013). "Katrine Kielos får Lagercrantzen". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  4. ^ Nominerade till Augustpriset 2012
  5. ^ Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? Archived 20 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Portobello Books.
  6. ^ Atwood, Margaret E. (14 April 2015). "Smart, funny, readable book on #economics #money #women #selfish: Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? Katrine Marçal. http://www.portobellobooks.com". @margaretatwood. Retrieved 9 January 2020. External link in |title= (help)
  7. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2015: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Marknaden är en hispig man". 19 May 2012.
  9. ^ Marçal, Katrine (28 September 2014). "Thank you everyone who came and made our wedding Saturday so amazing. Me and @guymarcal feel so blessed and so happy!pic.twitter.com/ccND9aRs8V". @katrinemarcal. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

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