Damages awarded to 'The Bookseller of Kabul' wife

The author and publisher of bestselling The Bookseller of Kabul have been ordered to pay 250,000 kroner (€31,345) in damages to a woman portrayed in the book.

The Daily Dagbladet newspaper said today that the Oslo district court ruled journalist Asne Seierstad infringed the privacy of Suraia Rais in her book, named after Rais’s husband, Shah Mohammad Rais.