Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul

Pia Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul (born in Stockholm 20 May 1944) is a Swedish translator.
Born Veronica Schildt, she belonged to the Finnish Assembly (Finska församlingen, a non-territorial assembly in Swedish church primarily serving Sweden Finns in the Stockholm diocese). she finished her matriculation in a school for girls in Stockholm in 1964, and later studied at Stockholm University receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1971.

Personal life

She worked as a translator, translating notably the comics series Isabelle and Lucky Luke to Swedish. She also translated literary books like Agatha Christie mysteries.

Veronica Schildt comes from a very artistic family background. Her father Henrik Schildt and her uncle Jurgen Schildt as well as her brother Peter Schildt, and half-brother Johan Schildt were established names in theater, film and television.

She took the name of Bendjelloul after marrying Hacène Bendjelloul, an Algerian-born chief physician at the hospital in Helsingborg hospital. The couple had two children, Johar Bendjelloul born in 1975 who became a well-known Swedish television presenter and journalist and Malik Bendjelloul born in 1977, and an Oscar-winning filmmaker for Searching for Sugar Man. Malik committed suicide on 13 May 2014 after struggling with depression.