Anita Theorell

Anita Theorell has a PhD in art history and is the author of several books on cultural history. She was awarded Sweden’s prestigious August Prize in 2001 for Minnets stigar (‘Paths of Memory’). Theorell worked for many years as a curator at the Swedish cultural centre Kulturhuset in Stockholm and as head of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s unit for culture and media. She has conducted research on Axel Törneman since the early 1960s.