Ann Heberlein
Ann Helen Heberlein (born 22 June 1970 in Malmö) is a Swedish writer and academic who focuses on theology and ethics. She is best known for her 2008 memoir Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva, about living with bipolar disorder and suicidal thoughts.
She earned her doctorate at Lund University in 2005 with a thesis on abuses and forgiveness. In 2007 she began teaching practical philosophy at Stockholm University while researching the criminal justice system, and since 2009 she has worked at Lund University. She published Den sexuella människan in 2004 and contributed to Systematisk teologi in 2007. In 2008 she published Det var inte mitt fel! Om konsten att ta ansvar.
Heberlein also writes for the newspapers Sydsvenskan and Dagens Nyheter, and has written for Expressen, Axess, and Kyrkans tidning. She has a regular radio column on Sveriges Radio P1 with Tankar för dagen and was a guest on Sommarpratarna in 2009. Her autobiographical book from 2008 was adapted into a play at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2012.
She ran for Parliament in the 2018 general election as a Moderate Party candidate. In 2016 she resigned from Sydsvenskan after a dispute over writing about immigration or Islam on social media, a claim the editor denied. In 2018 Kickstarter briefly blocked crowdfunding for her book Rape and Culture – A survey of group violence in Sweden 2012–2017, but she later said she had raised about 1 million SEK from around 5,000 backers through crowdfunding and other channels.
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