Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad (born
February 10,
1970) is a
Norwegian freelance
journalist. In
2001 she followed the
Northern Alliance into
Kabul after the fall of the
Taliban government. She stayed with a bookseller and his family there and wrote a
novel about it:
The Bookseller of Kabul. In
2003 she reported from
Baghdad during the
invasion of Iraq.