Per Evald Torbjörn Ohlsson (born 3 March 1958 in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

) 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

Author

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.

Biography

Ohlsson studied at Lund University

Lund University

Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...

, where he also was editor of the student newspaper Lundagård

Lundagård (newspaper)

Lundagård is a student newspaper published by the Lund University Student Union . Lundagård was first published in 1920 and is the oldest student newspaper still in circulation in Sweden...

from 1980 to 1981. He then worked as a journalist for the newspaper Expressen

Expressen

Expressen is one of two nationwide evening tabloid newspapers in Sweden, the other being Aftonbladet. Expressen was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and slogans "it stings" or "Expressen to your rescue", always on the reader's side....

from 1982 to 1985. From 1985 to 1988 he was a correspondent

Correspondent

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 in the United States

United States

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 for the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet

Sydsvenskan

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and from 1990 to 2005 he was political editor-in-chief at Sydsvenska Dagbladet (which classifies itself as "independly liberal

Liberalism

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"). Since 2005 he is a senior columnist for the same newspaper.

Ohlsson has published, among other books, a biography on the former Swedish Minister for Finance Johan August Gripenstedt

Johan August Gripenstedt

Baron Johan August Gripenstedt was a Swedish businessman and politician. During his political career, Gripenstedt was a member of the Swedish Estates Assembly from 1840 to 1848, Minister without Portfolio from 1848 to 1856, Minister for Finance from 1856 to 1866, and Member of Parliament from...

 (100 år av tillväxt : Johan August Gripenstedt och den liberala revolutionen, 1994) and on the Austrian-Swedish entrepreneur Herbert Felix

Herbert Felix

Herbert Felix was a Swedish entrepreneur of Austrian-Jewish descent and the founder of the food companies AB Felix and Felix Austria....

 (Konservkungen : Herbert Felix - ett flyktingöde i 1900-talets Europa, 2006). In 1998, he received the Söderberg Foundation Award for Journalism (Det Söderbergska Journalistpriset).