Bosse Lindquist

Who is Bosse Lindquist?

Bosse Lindquist, born in 1954, is a Swedish radio and TV producer and writer. Directing of investigative documentaries at Swedish Television's Documentary department since 2012. Also Ander Visiting Professor of Global Media studies at Karlstad University 2012 - 2013. 2007 - 2009 head of the national radio broadcaster Swedish Radio’s Documentary Department. Directing documentaries and as well as a non-fiction author since 1988.

A series of documentaries on the state of modern genetics and prenatal diagnostics - Mechanics of Live – won the Prix Futura in Berlin 1995, and was also rewarded with the Ikarosprice for 1993 and the Association of Swedish Investigative Journalists prize for 1993. The radio-documentary The Rebels – about an extreme and secret Swedish maoist group got the Ikarosprize 1997 and together with Swedish Eugenics– about Sweden’s forced sterilization of women for eugenic reasons– the Vilhelm Moberg grant in 1997. Bring the Jews Last got a special commendation at Prix Italia 1998 as well as the prize of the law and history faculties of the Stockholm university 1998. The Silence of Phnom Penh – about Swedish support of the Pol Pot regime – won the Prix Europa in Berlin 2000, the Association of Swedish Investigative Journalists prize and the Ikarosprize for 1999. One TV documentary and one radio documentary about adoption from South Korea to Sweden received special commendations at Prix Europa 2002.