Annette Kullenberg
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Elsa Caroline Annette Kullenberg (born 9 January 1939 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and author. She studied philosophy at Uppsala University and she started working as a journalist in the early 1960s. She work at Aftonbladet for 25 years and quit in 2002 after a conflict with the editor-in-chief Anders Gerdin about the content of a chronicle about Princess Madeleine of Sweden. The conflict started when Gerdin without informing Kullenberg had changed the chronicle that stated that the princess suffered from alcohol problem to a milder text. She was during six years a foreign correspondent stationed in Buenos Aires and Barcelona. Kullenberg was the chairman of the Swedish publicist club between 1994 and 1997.
Kullenberg's first novel was Vänd på dig (published in 1967), and Överklassen i Sverige was released in 1974 and Urp! sa överklassen in 1995. She has also been working as a dramatist with a dozen radio and television plays to her credit.
Since 2009, Kullenberg is writing chronicles for Expressen.