Maciej Zaremba Bielawski

Bielawski

Bielawski is the surname of a Polish noble family originating from Bielawa, Poland, Masovian Voivodeship. In fact, the Polish surname Bielawski means a nobleman from Bielawa. This noble family was listed in Boniecki in the Clan Jelita...

(born 12 March 1951) is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 journalist

Journalist

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 and author

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.

Zaremba was born in Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. He came to Sweden in 1969 where he worked as a construction worker

Construction worker

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 during the 1970s. In his youth he was active in the League Communist , but abandoned his communist

Communism

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 views when the group was dissolved in 1982. He earned a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 in the history of ideas

History of ideas

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 from Stockholm University

Stockholm University

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 in 1988. He started writing for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter

is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...

in 1989 and in 1994 he was recruited to the editorial team of the now defunct magazine Moderna Tider.

In 1997, Zaremba became famous after he wrote a series of articles in Dagens Nyheter about the compulsory sterilization

Compulsory sterilization

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 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

Vaxholm

Vaxholm is a locality and the seat of Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located in the Stockholm archipelago. The name Vaxholm comes from Vaxholm Castle, which was constructed in 1549 on an islet with this name on the inlet to Stockholm, for defense purposes, by King Gustav...

. For these articles he was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset

Stora Journalistpriset

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 ("Great Journalist Award") and Hasse Olssons pris till årets ekonomijournalist ("Hasse Olsson's Award for Business Journalist of the Year") in 2006. In 2005 he also received Gösta Bohman-stipendiet ("Gösta Bohman

Gösta Bohman

Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish...

 Award) and a prize from the Swedish Academy

Swedish Academy

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 through its own funds.

Zaremba has been married since 1982 to the author Agneta Pleijel.