Anna Carolina Neurath is a Swedish journalist and writer. She specializes in writing business articles for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In 2016 her first work of fiction, Fartblinda, was published.
Neurath began her career as a reporter for the business newspaper Dagens Industri. She served as an editor on the Placera.nu website. In 2011, Neurath published Den stora bankhärvan: Finansparet Hagströmer och Qvibergs uppgång och fall, a book depicting the rise and fall of HQ Bank and the reasons for its failure. On 19 July 2013, Neurath made a guest appearance as a "Sommarpratare" in the Sveriges Radio showSommar i P1. She also participated in SVT's Sommarpratarna in October 2014. In 2014, Neurath released her second book, De svenska riskkapitalisterna, co-authored by Jan Almgren. The same year, Neurath's history of acting became news when the low budgetfan film premiered, including 2006 footage of Neurath as Princess Arianna Ad'lah. Her third book is her first work of fiction: a 2016 finance thriller called Fartblinda where a young female finance journalist attempts to uncover the business of shady financiers. The rights for a TV series has been bought by FLX, a production company known for Felix Herngrens involvement.
Awards
Neurath has received various awards for her work. In 2010, she and a Svenska Dagbladet colleague, Jacob Bursell, were presented with the Guldspaden journalism award in the Larger Newspapers category for their coverage of the Swedish auditing industry. on 29 May 2013 In 2011, Neurath was nominated for a second Guldspaden award for her book Den stora bankhärvan: Finansparet Hagströmer och Qvibergs uppgång och fall, but did not win. The same year, Neurath was named one of "Sweden's Supertalents" by the newspaper Veckans Affärer; the Shortcut magazine included her on its list, "Årets uppstickare". She was also named "Woman of the Year" by the newspaper Expressen. In 2012, Neurath was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset for her work on the interest rate map. She was also named Sweden's best business journalist by the public relations firm Halvarsson & Halvarsson in their yearly review of the financial market. In July 2013, Neurath was given the title "Powermama" of the year by the magazine Mama. Additionally, she was named one of the world's best investigative journalists by the internationalMonocle magazine. In 2014, Neurath was also awarded the Per Wendel-pris for her work in journalism, which came with a prize of 100,000 SEK.
Works
Den stora bankhärvan: finansparet Hagströmer och Qvibergs uppgång och fall Stockholm: Norstedt, 2011. Print.
De svenska riskkapitalisterna: en berättelse om makt, pengar och hemligheter Stockholm: Norstedt, 2014. Print.
