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Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing
FRSL
Rausing in 2014
Born
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing

(1962-01-29) 29 January 1962 (age 62)
Lund, Scania, Sweden[1]
Alma materUniversity of York
University College London
Occupation(s)Author, publisher, philanthropist
Spouse
​
(m. 2003)​
[2]
Parent(s)Hans Rausing
Märit Rausing
RelativesRuben Rausing (paternal grandfather)
Hans Kristian Rausing (brother)
Lisbet Rausing (sister)

Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing FRSL (born 29 January 1962) is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations,[3] and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.

Early life

Rausing grew up in Lund, Sweden,[4] and studied History at the University of York between 1983 and 1986. She earned an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London in 1987, then continued with a PhD focusing on post-Soviet anthropology, and did her fieldwork on a collective farm in Estonia, in 1993–94. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology at University College London, followed by an honorary post-doctorate in the same department.[5]

Career

Writing

Rausing's monograph based on her PhD, History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. The book was preceded by a range of articles in scholarly journals, including Ethnologie Française.[6] Rausing writes occasional columns for the New Statesman, and her articles on human rights have appeared in The Guardian and The Sunday Times.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Everything Is Wonderful, a personal memoir of her year in Estonia researching the remnants of the Estonian Swedish community,[13] was published by Grove Atlantic in the US, and by Albert Bonniers Förlag in Sweden, in spring 2014.[14] It was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.[15] Rausing is also the author of Mayhem: A Memoir (2017),[16] which shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in 2018.[15]

Publishing

In spring 2005, with her husband Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones, she founded the publishing house Portobello Books,[17] and that autumn Rausing acquired Granta, a literary journal, and its book publishing arm.[18][19] She is now the publisher of both Granta magazine and Granta Books, including its imprint Portobello Books. In the 164th issue of Granta magazine, for which she had served as editor since 2013, she announced that Thomas Meaney would take over editorship beginning with the Autumn 2023 issue.[20]

Recognition

In 2010, Rausing was made an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics.[21]

In February 2013, Rausing was judged to be one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[22]

In January 2014, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York, from which she also received the Morrell Fellowship,[23] and in June 2014, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.[24]

In January 2016, Rausing was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her favourite music choice was Chopin’s "Études Op. 10, No. 1 in C major". Other choices were: "Hallelujah" by k.d. lang, "The Vatican Rag" by Tom Lehrer, "Bird on the Wire" by Leonard Cohen, "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, "The Last Goodbye" by The Kills, "I Get a Kick Out of You" by Ella Fitzgerald, and "Le Cygne (The Swan)" by Camille Saint-Saëns. Her book choice was Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and her luxury item was the British Library.[25]

In 2016, she was awarded by the University of Kent the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of her contribution to philanthropy and publishing.[26]

In 2020, Rausing was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL),[27] and in 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit) from University College London.[24]

Philanthropy

Rausing set up the charitable trust the Sea Foundation in 1988. In 1996, she transferred the funds to the Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust, named after her grandparents; the trust was renamed the Sigrid Rausing Trust in 2003, and by 2014 had distributed approximately £208.3 million to human rights organisations globally.[28]

In 2004, she was the joint winner of the International Service Human Rights Award, in the Global Human Rights Defender category. In 2005, she won a Beacon Special Award for philanthropy.[29] In 2006, she was awarded the Women's Funding Network's "Changing the Face of Philanthropy" Award.

Rausing is a judge on the jury of the Per Anger Prize for human rights defenders,[30] and an emeritus board member of the Order of the Teaspoon,[31] a Swedish organisation against political and religious extremism.

She was the judge of the Amnesty International Media Awards in 2009 and 2010.[32][33] She is an Emeritus member of the international board of Human Rights Watch and of the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.[24]

She is a former trustee of Charleston, in Sussex, the museum that is the former home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.[34]

In 2012, she was a judge of the Index on Censorship Media Awards.

Rausing is a supporter of Hope Not Hate, a UK advocacy group that campaigns against racism and fascism. On 1 December 2018, the Sigrid Rausing Trust began a grant of £450,000 over three years to Hope Not Hate. By that point, Hope Not Hate had received £615,000 from the Sigrid Rausing Trust.[35]

In 2024, Rausing was appointed vice-president of the Charleston Trust.[36]

Personal life

Rausing's first marriage to Dennis Hotz, a South African publisher and art dealer, ended in divorce.[37] In 2003, she married South African-born TV, film and theatre producer Eric Abraham.[38][2] They own Aubrey House in Holland Park,[39] and the Coignafearn estate, in the Monadh Liath, in the Highlands of Scotland.

Bibliography

As author

  • History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm. Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-926318-9.
  • Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia. Grove Atlantic, Inc. 14 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-8021-9281-3.
  • Mayhem : a memoir. Hamish Hamilton. 2017. ISBN 978-0-241-25926-9.

As editor

See also

References

  1. ^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2002).
  2. ^ a b Sulcas, Roslyn (6 June 2014). "Interview With a Torturer". The New York Times.
  3. ^ EW charity 1046769: Sigrid Rausing Trust
  4. ^ Ward, Elisabeth (2 July 2006). "Frikostigt vägval". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  5. ^ Benjamin, Alison (9 June 2004). "Family fortunes". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
  6. ^ "L'impossible retour. Dons, aides et échanges dans le nord-est de l'Estonie in Ethnologie Francaise 1998". Presses Universitaires de France. 1 January 2002. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  7. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (6 December 2011). "Yes to reforming the European court of human rights. No to overriding it". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (5 November 2010). "Human rights are our best safeguard against tyrannical rule". The Guardian.
  9. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (7 October 2012). "Belarus: inside Europe's last dictatorship". The Guardian.
  10. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (25 December 2011). "'Corrosive' human rights protect us all". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012.
  11. ^ "New Statesman Various Articles". New Statesman.
  12. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (17 April 2013). "Europe must help Georgia and Armenia, or Russia will". The Guardian.
  13. ^ Aslanyan, Anna (13 May 2014). "Everything Is Wonderful by Sigrid Rausing, book review". The Independent.
  14. ^ "Anteckningar från en kolchos", Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014.
  15. ^ a b "Literary Magazines and Translation: Current Reality and Future Prospects | Dr Sigrid Rausing, Publisher, Granta | Panellist". London Book Fair. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  16. ^ McAloon, Jonathan (22 September 2017). "Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing — chaos theory | A family memoir examines the devastation wrought by addiction". The Financial Times.
  17. ^ Edemariam, Aida (14 June 2006). "Books, money and milk cartons". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  18. ^ Townsend, Mark; Smith, David (9 October 2005). "The generous millionaire who saved Granta". The Observer. London. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
  19. ^ Opitz, Caspar (3 December 2005). "Visionär med kulturellt kapital". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  20. ^ "Introduction". Granta. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  21. ^ "Honorary Fellow of LSE". www2.lse.ac.uk/.
  22. ^ "The Power List 2013", Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4.
  23. ^ "University awards eight honorary degrees". University of York. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  24. ^ a b c "Sigrid Rausing | Chair". Sigrid Rausing Trust.
  25. ^ "Sigrid Rausing", Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, January 2016.
  26. ^ Press Office (7 July 2016). "University of Kent honorary degrees for summer 2016" (Press release). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  27. ^ "RSL 200: Sigrid Rausing FRSL". Royal Society of Literature. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  28. ^ "Sigrid Rausing Trust". SRT. 29 January 2013.
  29. ^ "Sigrid Rausing wins Judges' Special Beacon Prize" (Press release). The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  30. ^ "Jury och nominering" (Press release). levandehistoria.se. 29 September 2008. Archived from the original on 18 April 2013.
  31. ^ "Teskedsordens hedersledamot Sigrid Rausing i reportage i Svenska Dagbladet". Teskedsorden. 16 January 2012.
  32. ^ "Amnesty International Media Awards 2009: full list of winners". The Guardian. 3 June 2009.
  33. ^ "Amnesty International Media Awards 2010" (Press release). Amnesty International. 5 May 2010.
  34. ^ "Staff and Trustees". charleston.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013.
  35. ^ "HOPE Not Hate - Grantees - Welcome To SRT". www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org. January 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  36. ^ Spanoudi, Melina (15 August 2024). "Sigrid Rausing appointed vice president of Charleston". The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  37. ^ Adams, Tim (18 May 2014). "Interview | Sigrid Rausing: 'The sadness was overwhelming'". The Observer.
  38. ^ Eric Abraham profile, The Guardian, London. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  39. ^ Dovkants, Keith (10 April 2008). "Troubled heir to the £5bn Tetra Pak fortune". London Evening Standard.

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