IN DEPTH
Interview Dorotea Bromberg
Building bridges
Te recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award, Dorotea Bromberg, reveals how she and her father built their eponymous list
O
ne could read Dorotea Bromberg being named recipient of this year’s London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award as the publishing industry
giving an emphatic two fingers to the rising nationalist sentiment in Europe, for there is probably no beter case study of emigrants enriching a new country. Bromberg and her father Adam came to Sweden as refugees, fleeing the anti-Semitic persecutions which erupted in their native Poland during the 1968 political crisis and arriving with, she says, “not a word of Swedish between us”. Yet, the two soon established Brombergs, a house which would become Sweden’s pre-eminent literary publisher. Bromberg says: “The award means so much, Continues overleaf
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