Katrine Marçal


Katrine Linda Mathilda Marçal is a Swedish writer, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. She lives in Hertfordshire.

Biography

Marçal earlier served as chief editorialist of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet where she mainly wrote articles about Swedish and international financial politics and feminism. She has a Bachelor's degree from Uppsala universitet and has also been a freelance writer for Expressens culture page. In 2013, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter awarded Marçal the third annual Lagercrantzen prize for critics. She received the :sv:Jolopriset|Jolo-prize for journalism in 2015.
Marçal's book Det enda könet, which discusses the relationship between economics and patriarchy, was nominated for the August Prize in 2012. An English translation by Saskia Vogel was published in the United Kingdom under the title Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?. The book has since been translated to 20 languages. Margaret Atwood called it “A smart, funny, readable book on economics, money women.”.
In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
Marçal has interviewed leading economists and investors like Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Steve Eisman as part of her work for the Swedish financial news channel EFN. Her interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the European debt crisis has been viewed more than 1 million times on YouTube.
Since 2014, she is married to British garden designer Guy Marçal, from who she took his current surname.