Aung San Suu Kyi

New updated edition!

In May 2010, Norstedts released Jesper Bengtsson’s biography on Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in February 2011 Jesper Bengtsson managed to interview her. At the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the leader’s peace Nobel Prize in November 2011, Norstedts will release a revised and updated version of this brilliant biography.

“(…) We sit down in a sofa a few feet away from each other. She seems relaxed and perfectly composed. I ask her about her energy and apparently good mood.
”It´s not strange at all”, she says with an ironic glimpse in her eyes. ”The military gave me seven years of rest, so now I´m full of energy to continue my work.”

That´s mildly spoken an interesting approach to time, that someone with a less optimistic view on life would define as wasted. But that´s how she seems to be, this Nobel Prize laureate and democratic icon. She has survived all these years of
isolation by embracing it and pick out the up sides rather thanthe obvious down sides.

Rights sold to Norway (Spartacus), Finland (Minerva), Australian & New Zealand (HarperCollins), US (Potomac) and The Netherlands (de Geus).

Press voices:

"To anyone who wants to try to understand why, I highly recommended Burma scholar Jesper Bengtsson’s initiated, highly readable biography."
Östgöta Correspondenten

"An excellent biography" Tidningen Ångermanland

"An engaging and believable portrait of a remarkable woman who stands out against the harrowing backdrop of Burma's sad story, that Bengtsson know better than most.
I confess: my admiration is endless." Dagens Nyheter

"Read this book. Not to get an objective analysis of Aung San Suu Kyi's political achievements, but to get a background and understanding of why she has been under house arrest for 14 of the last 20 years and why she chose not to travel to her husband's deathbed in March 1999.” Norra Skåne