Van wie was Ali Esbati?

Ali Esbati (Persian: علی اثباتی; born 12 June 1977) is an Iranian-Swedish politician of the Left Party who was a member of the Riksdag from 2014 to 2024. An economist, he was the chairman of Young Left from 2001 to 2004. He was also the economic spokesperson for the Left Party from 2022 to 2024. He became famous for his blogging; his blog Esbatis kommentarer was at one time one of the most popular Swedish political blogs.

Esbati previously lived in Norway, where he held several jobs within the left-wing political sphere. After resigning from his position as the debate and opinion editor of the newspaper Klassekampen, he worked as managing director at the think tank Manifest. He is also a regular contributor to several Swedish and Norwegian magazines. Esbati has also been published in a number of books.

Marte Brekke Michelet (born 26 May 1975) is a Norwegian journalist, critic and non-fiction writer.

She is the daughter of novelist and politician Jon Michelet and Toril Brekke. They resided in Lindeberg, Oslo before her parents split up. Marte Michelet moved into an apartment in Oslo, that once had housed a young Jewish girl who was deported to Auschwitz.

She started her career in RadiOrakel and as a journalist in NRK. In 2006 she was hired in Dagbladet, where she rose to political commentator. She was also at one point the restaurant critic Robinson & Fredag. She resigned in 2014 when moving with her former husband Ali Esbati to Sweden; he was elected as a member of Parliament there.

In 2014 she released the book Den største forbrytelsen about the Holocaust in Norway, receiving rave reviews and promptly winning the Brage Prize.