Anna Widerberg

Anna Widerberg is a Swedish author, writer, communicator, and filmmaker based in Västerås. She grew up in Mölndal and on Getterön outside Varberg. During the 1990s, she worked for ten years as a journalist at VLT in Västerås. She later trained as a deacon and worked in several parishes, leading grief support groups and participating in social projects. In the early 2010s, she served as a political secretary for the Green Party in Västmanland and later worked as a communicator and web editor for the City of Västerås. Since 2016, she has been a freelancer, running her own business in writing, film, and web content.

Anna Widerberg’s writing is characterized by deep explorations of grief and existential themes. Her debut book, Tiden är människornas ängel (2020), is a self-biographical account of losing a loved one to suicide and the grief that follows.