Ebba Mary Matilda von Sydow (born 18 February 1981) is a Swedish journalist, author, columnist, and TV personality who also runs one of Sweden's most influential fashion and lifestyle blogs.
Early life
Ebba von Sydow was born on 18 February 1981 in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, Sweden.
Ebba is the great-granddaughter of the former Swedish Prime Minister,
Oscar von Sydow. She is related to actor
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television ...
and
Social Democratic
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politician
Björn von Sydow.
Career
Ebba von Sydow studied journalism in
Boston
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, Massachusetts where she hosted a weekly radio show. She then went to law school in
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
. In 2001, she started working as a fashion reporter and columnist for the evening paper ''
Expressen
(''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or " to your rescue".
The newspaper awards the cultu ...
''. She went on to become editor-in-chief of Expressen Fredag.
In 2005, she became editor-in-chief of the long-running Swedish fashion and lifestyle magazine ''
VeckoRevyn''. Prior to that she also worked at the music magazine ''
Groove
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Music
* Groove (music)
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* Groove 101.7FM, a former Perth, Australia, radio station
...
''. She has also worked for Swedish national radio,
SR P3.
In the summer of 2010, she hosted the broadcasts
, for national television in Sweden.
Ebba presented the early night show ''Gokväll'' on Saturdays on ''
SVT'', Sweden's biggest network. She left the show in May 2015. She then went on to present the morning show ''
Nyhetsmorgon
''Nyhetsmorgon'' is a Swedish morning news and talk show that is broadcast every morning on TV4. ''Nyhetsmorgon'' started airing on 14 September 1992.
References
External links
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TV4 (Sweden) original programming
1992 Swedish tel ...
'' broadcast on
TV4.
Bibliography
* 2006 – ''Ebbas stil'' – ''Ebba Style – The Ultimate Guide to a Better Wardrobe''
* 2011 – ''Kungligt snygg'' – ''Royal Style''
Personal life
Ebba von Sydow married Johan Kleberg in January 2011; the couple live in
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
.
References
Further reading
Crowning Miss SwedenConstructions of Gender, Race and Nation in Beauty Pageants.
The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco/Silicon ValleyInterview with Ebba
Introducing... Ebba von Sydow ''
The Local
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'', 19 February 2007.
External links
Ebba's svt.se Blog(archive)Ebba von Sydowon Twitter
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1981 births
Living people
21st-century Swedish journalists
Swedish women journalists
Swedish women writers
Swedish women columnists
Swedish magazine editors
Swedish women magazine editors
Writers from Gothenburg