Carina Bergfeldt

CARINA BERGFELDT (b. 1980) IS an award winning Swedish journalist who spent four years as the US correspondent at Sweden’s national television, SVT. Before that, she worked for a decade as a world reporter at Sweden’s biggest daily, Aftonbladet, where her series from Texas death row, “A Week With Death” is one of the paper’s biggest success to date. During the week of its release in 2013 the series about Death Row was read by 2.2 million Swedes, a quarter of the population. A year later Carina went back to Texas and wrote a book about how one execution affected the lives of so many, Seven days to live, which has been sold to multiple countries in Europe and Asia.

THROUGH HER JOB as a reporter, Carina has travelled around the world. She has written about sexual violence in India, drug cartels in Mexico and famine in Chad. Her articles about the massacre on the Norwegian island Utøya won her the Swedish Grand Journalism Award as ”Storyteller of the Year” in 2012 and in 2013 Carina won an award for “Best Writing Style”. In 2015 her work with forgotten crises on the African continent gave her a nomination for the Red Cross Journalism Award and after covering the war in Syria she was nominated for the European Press Prize in 2016. She started working for Swedish Television in 2016 and was after her first year on tv nominated for a Kristallen Award for TV Personality of the Year, the first journalist ever to receive a nomination in the category.