Maciej Zaremba

rdf:langString Maciej Zaremba

rdf:langString Poznań, Poland

rdf:langString Journalist, writer

rdf:langString Agneta Pleijel

rdf:langString Maciej Zaremba Bielawski (born 12 March 1951) is a Swedish journalist and author. Zaremba was born in Poznań, Poland, son to Oskar Bielawski and Elżbieta Immerdauer. In 1969 he emigrated to Sweden with his mother and two younger brothers due to increasing anti-semitism in Poland. He started working as a construction worker. In his youth, he was active in the (Swedish: Förbundet Kommunist), but abandoned his communist views when the group was dissolved in 1982. He earned a B.A. in the history of ideas from Stockholm University in 1988. He started writing for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter in 1989 and in 1994 he was recruited to the editorial team of the now defunct magazine . In 1997, Zaremba became famous after he wrote a series of articles in Dagens Nyheter about the compulsory sterilization program active in Sweden from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s. The article sparked much debate in Sweden and led to a government inquiry into the matter. In 2005 he wrote a series of articles about a labor dispute involving foreign construction workers in Vaxholm. For these articles he was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset ("Great Journalist Award") and ("Hasse Olsson's Award for Business Journalist of the Year") in 2006. In 2005 he also received ("Gösta Bohman Award) and a prize from the Swedish Academy through its own funds. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Huset med de två tornen (A House with Two Turrets). Zaremba has been married since 1982 to the author Agneta Pleijel.