Welcome…

… to my web-site! I am a journalist, a writer and an international trainer of journalists. Just a few words about myself: I am born in 1951 in my home country Sweden, married to Hong Vu who has a PhD-degree from the University of Westminster in London, and is employed in the Stockholm school authority. Together we have a daughter born in 2011 and a son born in 2013. We both have grown-up children from previous marriages. We live in the Stockholm area, but also at times in Hanoi, Vietnam. Earlier in life, I have lived in Berkeley, California; and in London, Jerusalem and New Delhi.

I have been a journalist for more than 40 years, and even if I covered a lot of ground, I am mostly happy with what my TV-documentary “Stolen Childhood” (Swedish Television 2005) resulted in. The film was about abuses to children in a communal childcare home 1955-1975, and only three weeks later the government decided to launch a nationwide inquiry into the treatment of the children that had been taken from their parents to be placed in institutions or foster homes. The inquiry grew to be one of the largest in the world on a similar issue and was not finished until 2011. After that, the state offered the abused children (then grown-up men and women) an unconditional excuse in a special ceremony with the Swedish queen present. The thousands of victims were being offered a compensation of 250 000 SEK each, equivalent to almost 30 000 USD.

I have produced two follow-up documentaries (2009 and 2012) and published a book on the subject in 2014.

In 2020 Swedish Radio published a series of documentaries about the conditions in the Swedish mental hospital ”Vipeholm” during the mid-20th century, which I took the initative to. In 2021 I was awarded the Swedish Grand Price for Journalism, together with my two colleagues behind the series. This award can be described as the Swedish Pulitzer price. The same year, I published a book about this institution.

As a writer I have also published seven novels, of which five are crime stories and two are thrillers. The novels have been published in more than ten languages. One of them, “the Sunday man”, reached sales rank 4 of all books on German Amazon.com the summer of 2009. Another book, “the Borderland”, was short-listed in France as best crime novel in Europe 2010. Both these books were nominated as best crime novel of the year in Sweden. The latest novel, “the man who returned” was published in 2018. I have also written other books with investigative reportages than the two above mentioned.

Since 1997 I have trained professional journalists (further education) on behalf of the Swedish Fojo institute, first in Palestine, later in Vietnam and also in Sri Lanka. My areas are Investigative journalism and TV-skills.

Contact: info@kanger.se

Books:
Mordet på Olof Palme (the murder of Olof Palme), Ordfront 1987.
Kommunistjägarna (The Communist hunters, together with Jonas Gummesson), Ordfront 1990.
Pengar pengar (Money money), Brevskolan 1993
Första stenen (First stone), Norstedts 2001
Sjung som en fågel (Sing like a bird), Norstedts 2002
Den döda vinkeln (the dead angle), Norstedts 2003
Söndagsmannen (the Sunday man), Norstedts 2004
Ockupanterna (the Occupiers), Norstedts 2005
Gränslandet (the Borderland), Norstedts 2007
Drakens år (the Dragon year), Norstedts 2011                                              Stulen barndom (Stolen Childhood) Bonniers 2014                                       Göra TV, helt enkelt (Handbook in TV-skills), Ordfront 2016                Mannen som kom tillbaka (The man who Returned) Mai Linh förlag, 2018 Idiotanstalten (The ”idiot” institution), Kaunitz-Olsson, 2021