Sigrid Rausing Trust
| Sigrid Rausing | |
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Rausing in 2014
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| Born |
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing 29 January 1962 |
| Residence |
Aubrey House, Holland Park, London, England Coignafearn Estate, Monadhliath Mountains, Scotland |
| Alma mater |
University of York University College London |
| Occupation | Author, publisher, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | Eric Abraham |
| Parent(s) |
Hans Rausing Märit Rausing |
| Relatives |
Ruben Rausing (paternal grandfather) Hans Kristian Rausing (brother) Lisbet Rausing (sister) |
Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing (born January 29, 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, and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
Sigrid Rausing is the daughter of Swedish businessman Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing. She has one sister, Lisbet Rausing and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing. Her grandfather Ruben Rausing was co-founder of the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak.
Rausing grew up in Lund, Sweden, and studied History at the University of York between 1983 and 1986. She has an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London in 1987. She continued with a PhD focusing on post-Soviet anthropology, and did her fieldwork on a collective farm in Estonia, in 1993-4. 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.
Rausing's book, a 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 Francaise.
Everything Is Wonderful, a personal memoir of her year in Estonia researching the remnants of the Estonian Swedish community, was published by Grove Atlantic in the US, and by Bonniers in Sweden, in spring 2014.
Rausing writes occasional columns for the New Statesman, and her articles on human rights have appeared in the Guardian and the Sunday Times.
In spring 2005, with her husband, Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones she founded the publishing house, Portobello Books, and that Autumn she acquired Granta, a renowned literary journal, and its book publishing arm. She is now the publisher of both Granta magazine and Granta Books, including its imprint Portobello Books.
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