Talk:Liza Marklund

message: Removed the part that claimed Piratförlaget to be the third largest publishing house in Sweden. Depending on how yu count size (number of titles issued or annual turnover) Piratförlaget is problably somewhere in the region of place 30 to 40. Morris
Added some text regarding the Annika Bengtzon series.
The section related to the Maria Eriksson series needed some editing to comply with wikipedia standards. The description of the series was made shorter and more readable. Some superfluous details regarding the storyline were deleted. The impact of the series, i.e. the number of copies sold and the discussion in the Riksdag was kept. However, some details not needed to understand the overall story or the controversy treated later was deleted. For example the years in South America are not discussed, and the particular wordings of Maria Eriksson’s application for Asylum have been deleted.
Regarding the controversy, the text was made shorter and more readable, but was also edited to better comply with Wikipedia standards regarding neutrality. For example, some references to Norwegian and Danish newspapers were deleted, and if possible new references to the original Swedish newspaper articles were added. The quote and reference to an article in Dagens Nyheter was deleted. The quote was misleading since it did not translate the first part of the sentence, where it said that “If Monica Antonsson’s allegations are true, then …” In its entirety the sentence is purely speculative, and was therefore deleted.
The controversy is an ongoing matter, and more text could eventually be added. However, to comply with Wikipedia standards care should be taken to keep and neutral perspective, and to not overburden the text with details of minor importance. For example a number of lawsuits have been filed, from both sides. Some of the lawsuits are clearly frivolous, and as long as the results are pending they should be considered to be of minor importance.
Ulf1975 (talk) 20:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: The publishing company has now gone public and offered regrets about having marketed the book as a true story  - there is no longer an "ongoing controversy" or dispute about the fact that there is an admitted problem with the book's claim to be "a true story about a Swedish woman taken straight from reality" as was previously claimed by the author and which is how the book has  been marketed for 14 years. None of Antonsson's new revelations about the "Maria Eriksson" case (which Marklund originally single-handedly managed to put in the public eye and which she has presented and championed both in her two books and in newspaper articles about the abuse and about the 2003 asylum case) have been refuted by Marklund. The details about the asylum of "Maria Eriksson" was a journalistic scoop by Marklund - her scoop and the book was even discussed by members of the parliament and commented on by Mona Sahlin, a minister of the government, in the press.
About the other issues raised above:
* Neutrality is not reached by excluding mention of the storyline and the main characters of Marklund's criticized book! The main characters are definitely not "superfluous details" (as demonstrated by the amount of space given to the main character "Annika Bengtzon" in the other series). Marklund's newspaper articles about the abuse of "Maria Eriksson", Marklund's involvement in the woman's flight and in her fight to win asylum in the US are the reasons the two won fame and fortune in Sweden. Marklund is the only author listed for the second edition of the book about "Maria Eriksson"'s abuse in Sweden ("Buried Alive - a true story" lists only Marklund as  author, while "Asylum - the true continuation of Buried Alive" lists "Maria Eriksson" as a co-author). According to interviews and book covers, Marklund is the one who conducted the research and the fact checking for the book. She has even published the excerpts from her diary for publication in the magazine Amelia about how she did her reseach about the case. 
* This is not Swedish Wikipedia and Swedish-language articles are therefore not preferable to international coverage of the story, such as the Danish and English news reports used. 
* The shortened summary about the criticism forwarded against the book is incorrect and has been reverted: the bulk of the criticism does not concern the smaller issues introduced by Ulf1975 but concern bigger issues that question the very reasons for "Maria Eriksson's" flight from Sweden; Antonsson found no evidence of the alleged persecution of "Maria Eriksson", neither by the "man with the black eyes" or by Muslims gangs. See the press report linked in the article and also this review about the criticism. See also the statements by people interviewed at the refugee shelter in her hometown and in the building where she lived TV4 program (uploaded to YouTube under the title "The truth about the bestseller 'Buried alive' (Gömda)").
* There is no reason to exclude mention of the complaint filed with the Chancellor of Justice by "Maria Eriksson" of Marklund's books "Buried Alive - a true story" and "Asylum - the true continuation of Buried Alive". This fact has been covered by every major and minor Swedish newspaper and by almost every media outlet in the country and is therefore not a "minor issue". It is true that the Wikipedia article is not yet mentioning both lawsuits, the one against Marklund as a journalist, for allegedly having revealed name and social security number of a source with protected identity, is excluded. But that exclusion is not based on whether the lawsuit is frivolous or not - that is not up to us to determine here. It is not mentioned because there has not yet been an official decision on whether or not the Chancellor will allow the case to go forward. The case filed by "Maria Eriksson" on the other hand has been accepted. There were also three complaints filed with Pressombudsmannen by Marklund against the first three newspapers that published reviews of Antonsson's book, but that can also wait and be mentioned later. Another part of the controversy not mentioned is the row over the attempts to have the reporter fired who produced the first two TV-news sections about the case, Annika Widebeck at TV4  as well as the dispute over the reasons as to why the second part of the series about the case has not yet aired . The TV4 dispute may not yet resolved (the first section of the TV4 series has already aired). That dispute is however only peripheral and may not be pertinent enough to mention here in this article - unless it escalates. 
* The quote from Dagens Nyheter is only one of many that compare Marklund's problems with Frey's; it concerns the dilemma shared by the two authors, namely having won fame for a product marketed as "a true story" about a person which turned out not to be in accordance with evidence later uncovered, at which point the publisher issued statements to reflect the fact that it had been mislabeled "a true story". But Ulf1975's objection against using a partial quote makes sense: it is better if the DN quote is cited in full in a footnote and a more general statement used about the comparisons made by DN and other newspapers & publications. 
Shorter articles are not more neutral than well-sourced, longer articles. There is no reason to exclude information that is reliably sourced and extensively covered and discussed in the media. Please also note that Wikipedia is not a venue for promotion and once a book is published, the author no longer has control over the notoriety it receives and therefore cannot decide what warrants mention about it, here on Wikipedia or in real life. The hoax case has now become as notorious as the flight and the asylum story covered in the books - it has been mentioned in every single news outlet in Sweden and it is mentioned as one of the note-worthy events in Swedish cultural life in 2008 by the news agency TT Spectra . 
I have reinstated the section about the book and the case, with the exception of the DN quote. Sophiasghost (talk) 00:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: I'd like to move additional content from Liza Marklund#The Annika Bengtzon series into Annika Bengtzon to match the convention set by Liza Marklund#The Maria Eriksson series. Any objections? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:55, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: Hi Liza,I live in Tauhunu, MANIHIKI n am reading one of your books "The Long Shadow", that I borrowed from Nitika. I love reading novels especially mysterious n romantic ones. Im enjoying reading your very first book of many that I intend to read. But, therefore, I was so taken with the 'Photo Book' that you did for your hosts in Tukao. Really fantastic n beautiful. However I'm most interested if its a possibility if you can do a book for me n please name your costing. I'm not rich just a humble public servant for Manihiki, originally from a big family in Puaikura, Rarotonga. Please feel free to contact me. Email address;tepanoemi@gmail.com, (682)57-033 [mobile], anytime you wish to. FB page; Emi TEPANO. Thanks.
MEITAKI KOREREKA 
Emiky HEATHER TEPANO 
Tauhunu, MANIHIKI Emcjz (talk) 20:42, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Photo Album like book"