Breivik Anders Behring - One of us: the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway

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Breivik's path on the island of Utya

The victims

Breivik in his false uniform, moments after his arrest.

sne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of The Bookseller of Kabul , One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal , and Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya . She lives in Oslo, Norway. You can sign up for email updates here.

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Everything in this book is based on testimony. All the scenes are constructed according to witnesses accounts.

Anders Behring Breiviks childhood and adolescence is told through a number of sources, including his mother and father, friends, family and his own accounts to the police and in court. I have also had access to all reports about his childhood from the Oslo social services.

When it comes to the planning of his act of terror, I have, in addition to other sources, used his diary and log from the manifesto. When I refer to what he thinks in certain situations, and how he feels about them, it is always based on what he has himself said. Often I have quoted him directly and used his exact words; at other times more indirectly, just referring to what he has recounted.

The other sources from Utya are the surviving victims. They have shared their stories and observations with me, their thoughts and feelings. Together with the perpetrators accounts, this made it possible to reconstruct the terror attack minute by minute.

There is a longer review of my working methods in the epilogue at the end of the book.

sne Seierstad

Oslo, 12 November 2014

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Knausgrd, Karl Ove: Det monofone mennesket, Samtiden 3:2012.

Moi, Toril: Markedslogikk og kulturkritikk Om Breivik og ubehaget i den postmoderne kulturen, Samtiden 3:2012.

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