Anna Riwkin-Brick [SEP] date of birth
Anna Riwkin-Brick
Anna Riwkin-Brick or just Anna Riwkin (Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russia -- Tel Aviv 19 December 1970) was a Russian-born Swedish photographer.
Early life.
Anna Riwkin was born in Gomel into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire and came to Sweden with her parents in 1914. She learned ballet for three years as a child at the Stockholm Whitlockska samskolan School, and danced professionally for some time before an injured foot put an early stop to her career.
Photographer
. When Anna Riwkin-Brick came back after a trip from Japan, her publisher wanted to create a photo book with Riwkin-Brick's new pictures. No suitable author was found. Therefore, the publishers asked Astrid Lindgren to write the story. At first Astrid Lindgren didn't want to write the story, but she finally agreed to do so. During most of Riwkin-Brick's new projects Lindgren either accompanied Riwkin-Brick directly or followed her later. During others, like "Marko in Yugoslavia", she