Tune if for this virtual book talk with Ingrid and Joachim Wall about their book A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall - their moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family’s loss, and a legacy preserved.

In conversation with Kelly Ramot, Executive Director of Thanks to Scandinavia (TTS), they will discuss the book about their daughter Kim, who was an ASF Fellow in 2013-14 as well as a TTS Scholar.

Kim Wall was a 30-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. In the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day’s headline, she’d become one. As the bizarre events of Kim’s murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim’s distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by grueling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial. In the end, they’d make certain that Kim would be seen not only as a victim but as a bright, funny, complicated, ethical, and selfless young woman—a loved and loving daughter, sister, fiancée, colleague, and friend. Kim Wall’s life and promise may have been cut short, but everything she stood for lives on in this emotional memoir of braving the worst of days, moving forward, and never forgetting.

The program will take place as a Zoom webinar; please ask questions in the chat or send them in advance to info@amscan.org.