Nina Björk

A portrait of Nina Björk, swedish journalist and author.

Nina Björk (born May 18, 1967 in Östersund, Jämtland) is a Swedish feminist, author and journalist. She is most well known for Under det rosa täcket (Under the Pink Duvet), a feminist book written in 1996.

She is considered to be a left-wing equity feminist. In 2008 she earned her PhD degree in literary criticism at Gothenburg University with her doctorate thesis Fria Själar. She is also well known as a columnist in Dagens Nyheter.

She was awarded the Lenin Award (Sweden) in 2021, and at the prize ceremony, Kajsa Ekis Ekman said about Björk: "She does not seek to take opponents apart, and therefore never uses their worst arguments when they have messed up. She does not come from behind, she says, choose your weapons, and then we will see what they say about you. She always uses the opponent’s best, most archetypal arguments and tries to draw them to her own conclusion. That is precisely why she is completely unique in the Swedish public: she is truly a democratic thinker."

Bibliography

• Under det rosa täcket, 1996, ISBN 91-46-17011-1
• Sireners sång, 1999, ISBN 91-46-17469-9
• Fria själar, 2008, ISBN 91-46-21927-7
• Lyckliga i alla sina dagar, 2012, ISBN 978-91-46-22210-1
• Drömmen om det röda : Rosa Luxemburg, socialism, språk och kärlek, 2016, ISBN 978-91-46-23059-5
• Om man älskar frihet: Tankar om det politiska, 2020,ISBN 9789146236801