Göran Rosenberg, winner of the 2012 August Prize, is a writer and journalist for major Swedish newspapers and magazines. He has worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for Swedish radio and television and is also a producer of documentaries.
In this excerpt from ‘Sweden: the reluctant nation’, published as part of Counterpoint’s ‘Europe’s Reluctant Radicals’ project, Göran Rosenberg explores the history of the Swedish political ideal of ‘folkhemmet’ [the people’s home].