Alexandra Pascalidou

Pascalidou became known to the public in 1995 when she began hosting the multicultural television show Mosaik on SVT, one of Sweden's public service channels. Along with Michael Alonzo, Dogge Doggelito, and Cissi Elwin, Pascalidou was a prominent figure in the Swedish part of Europarådet{{'s}} anti-racism campaign "All Different All Equal", known in Sweden under the working title "Youth Against Racism"(UMR) in the mid-1990s.{{Cite web |url=http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2017/03/13/black-haired-pig-greek-swedish-journalist-speaks-up-against-racism-and-sexism/ |title= Keep Talking Greece Greek News in English, Blog, Wit & Drama |website=keeptalkinggreece.com |date= March 13, 2017 |access-date=2018-10-11}} In 2000–01 she hosted Som sagt on SVT, a Saturday night programme with a focus on literature and language topics. At the same time, she was a producer and reporter for the television show Striptease that focused on investigative journalism.

In 2004, Pascalidou hosted the Olympics in Athens for SVT, following which she lived in Greece for two years, hosting various television shows including, for example, Friday night entertainment on ERT covering a day spent with such well-known personalities as Roberto Cavalli, Isabel Allende, and Roger Moore, among others. She also hosted a three-hour live Greek morning television programme every day. She was the hostess for the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in 2005, and a commentator in Kyiv the year when Greece won the competition for the first time. In the same year Pascalidou hosted Melodifestivalen in Sweden from Gothenburg.

In January 2007, she became one of five hostesses of Sweden's TV4{{'s}} Förkväll,{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.se/se/article/2007/01/10/08/3115-32/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904132618/http://www.metro.se/se/article/2007/01/10/08/3115-32/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-04 |title=Alexandra ny programledare i "Förkväll" – Metro |publisher=Metro.se |accessdate=2012-08-09}} a daytime lifestyle program. She participated in the show Pokermiljonen on TV4 and was hostess for a series of charity galas on SVT, for example, På flykt with Kjell Lönnå and Uppesittarkväll with Anders Lundin.

Pascalidou is a columnist{{cite web|author=Alexandra PascalidouJournalist & författare |url=http://www.metro.se/2010/05/20/59249/hyckleri-nar-eu-ska-hjalpa-grekland-u/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523165441/http://www.metro.se/2010/05/20/59249/hyckleri-nar-eu-ska-hjalpa-grekland-u/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-23 |title=Hyckleri när EU ska hjälpa Grekland ur kris – Metro |publisher=Metro.se |accessdate=2012-08-09 }} and freelance writer in newspapers such as GP and Expressen. She has blogged continually on Metrobloggen until the newspaper ended their relationship.{{Cite web |url=https://metrobloggen.se/pascalidou/ |title=Follow My New Blog |website=metrobloggen.se |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412065816/http://metrobloggen.se/pascalidou/ |archivedate=2011-04-12|url-status=dead |access-date=2018-10-11}} She gives lectures on diversity and the media, democracy and justice issues, rhetoric and leadership, gender and cultural competence.

She has also served on the Board of BRIS (Children's Rights in Society) and the board of Kvinnojouren Terrafem working with women's rights against men's violence. She is involved in women's health and is a member of the 2.6{{nbsp}}Miljoner Klubben and a mom's ambassador to RFSUs campaign {{cn|date=January 2025}}. She sits on the board of the foundation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100811091400/http://laxhjalpen.se/ Läxhjälpen]

It was announced on 21 January 2016, that Pascalidou would host the semi-final allocation draw for Eurovision 2016, along with Jovan Radomir, in Stockholm, Sweden.{{cite web|title = Semi-Final Allocation Draw on Monday, pots revealed|url = http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=semi-final_allocation_draw_on_monday_pots_revealed|website = Eurovision.tv|access-date = January 21, 2016}}

Pascalidou is the founder of{{cite web | url=https://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/lisa-magnusson-jag-skams-for-den-nya-akademien/ | title=Jag skäms för den "nya" Akademien, skriver Lisa Magnusson – DN.SE| date=September 10, 2018}}{{cite web | url=https://omni.se/murakami-ar-stekt-om-han-far-nya-akademiens-pris/a/G1L0bQ | title=Murakami är stekt om han får Nya Akademiens pris| date=September 11, 2018}}{{cite web | url=https://ng.se/artiklar/den-nya-akademien-maste-stoppas | title=Krönika: "Den nya akademien måste stoppas"}} New Academy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/alternative-nobel-prize-literature-new-academy-prize.html|title=An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You|newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 13, 2018 |access-date=2018-08-13|language=en|last1=Marshall |first1=Alex }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/02/alternative-nobel-literature-prize-planned-in-sweden|title=Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=July 2, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-13}}

Alexandra has been accused several times of plagiarism and using ghost writers. Two instances of plagiarism have been exposed: in 2003 she copied large parts of text written by the journalist Daniel Hernandez for the Los Angeles Times{{Citation |last=Helander |first=Magnus |title=Pascalidou avslöjad: Plankar LA Times |newspaper=Resumé |date=October 20, 2005 |url=http://www.resume.se/nyheter/2005/10/20/pascalidou-avslojad--planka/?ar=true |accessdate=March 1, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627161512/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/2005/10/20/pascalidou-avslojad--planka/?ar=true |archivedate=June 27, 2015 }} and in 2015 it was revealed that she had translated a Turkish poem by Aziz Nesin and published under her own name.{{cite web |url=http://www.resume.se/nyheter/media/2015/04/30/pascalidous-sista-kronika-bortplockad-den-holl-inte/ |title=Pascalidou plagierade dikt – plankar för andra gången |publisher=Resume.se |accessdate=2015-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502180704/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/media/2015/04/30/pascalidous-sista-kronika-bortplockad-den-holl-inte/ |archivedate=2015-05-02 }} In connection to the latter incident Pascalidou's collaboration with the newspaper Metro was terminated. The details behind the termination was not revealed by neither Metro nor Pascalidou, but the column in question was removed from Metro's archive.

• Mammorna (Mothers) Bokförlaget Atlas AB, Stockholm, 2018. {{ISBN|978-9173896085}}{{Cite web |url=http://bokforlagetatlas.se/bocker/mammorna/ |title=Mammorna |website=bokforlagetatlas.se |access-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420093343/https://bokforlagetatlas.se/bocker/mammorna/ |url-status=dead }}
• me too : Så går vi vidare Röster, redskap och råd (Me Too –Then We Proceed to Voices, Tools and Advice) Lava Förlag, Stockholm, 2017. {{ISBN|978-9188529848}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/me-too-sa-gar-vi-vidare-roster-redskap-och-rad-9789188529848 |title=me too : Så går vi vidare Röster, redskap och råd |website=adlibris.com |access-date=2018-10-11 |date=December 12, 2017 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014600/https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/me-too-sa-gar-vi-vidare-roster-redskap-och-rad-9789188529848 |url-status=dead }}
• Kaos : ett grekiskt krislexikon (CHAOS: A Greek Crisis Icon) Bokförlaget Atlas AB, Stockholm, 2014. {{ISBN|978-9173894418}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/kaos-ett-grekiskt-krislexikon-9789173894630 |title=Kaos : ett grekiskt krislexikon |website=adlibris.com |access-date=2018-10-11|date=June 9, 2014 }}
• My Big Fat Greek Cookbook (2010) Bonnier fakta{{cite web |author=Vardagar och helger 07:58 |url=http://www.tv4play.se/aktualitet/nyhetsmorgon?videoId=1.1574154 |title=Nyhetsmorgon: Alexandra Pascalidou och mamma Hrisula om nya kokboken – TV4 Play |publisher=Tv4play.se |date= |accessdate=2012-08-09 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|author=Maria Hedlund |url=http://www.dn.se/mat-dryck/reportage/grekisk-mat-1.1059056 |title=I Grekland lagas mat på känsla och inte recept |publisher=Dagens Nyheter |date=March 14, 2010 |access-date=2012-08-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623041633/http://www.dn.se/mat-dryck/reportage/grekisk-mat-1.1059056 |archive-date=June 23, 2010 }}
• Taxi Bokförlaget Atlas AB, Stockholm, 2008. {{ISBN|978-9173895187}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/taxi-9789173895187 |title=Taxi |website=adlibris.com |access-date=2018-10-11|date=February 22, 2016 }} Interviews with taxi drivers around the world, from Nairobi to New York. Also available in Greek (Psychogios Publications). This book was broadcast on radio P1, P3 and P4, where Alexandra directed Sweden's leading actors including Michael Nyqvist, Samuel Fröler, David Dencik, and Andreas Wilson.
• Frontkick Bokförlaget Atlas AB, Stockholm, 2003. {{ISBN|978-9173891240}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/frontkick-9789173891240 |title=Frontkick |website=adlibris.com |access-date=2018-10-11|date=September 2003 }} Stories from Pascalidou's inquiries in the areas of racism, terrorism, media, democracy, and so on.
• Cross-Roads: voices from suburban cultures (2002). In-depth interviews with famous Swedish artists who grew up in suburbia. For example, Joakim Thåström, Jerry Williams, Metallica, Dogge, and others.
• Bortom mammas gata (Beyond My Mom's Street) Bokförlaget Atlas AB, Stockholm, 2008. {{ISBN|978-9173893718}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/bortom-mammas-gata-9789173893718 |title= Bortom mammas gata |website=adlibris.com |access-date=2018-10-11|date= August 12, 2009 }} An autobiographical book about growing up in one of Sweden's poorest neighborhoods. The book was hailed by critics and used in schools. The book was translated into Greek by publisher Oceanida.

• 2018 – The Bellman Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stockholm.se/KulturFritid/Stod/Kulturpriser/|title=Stockholms stads kulturpriser|website=stockholm.se|language=sv|access-date=2018-08-13}}
• 2018 – The St Eriks Medal.{{Cite web|url=https://via.tt.se/pressmeddelande/arets-st-eriksmedaljorer-utsedda?publisherId=1213538&releaseId=2428976|title=Årets S:t Eriksmedaljörer utsedda |website=tt.se|language=sv|access-date=2018-08-13}}
• 2017 – The 5i12 Prize.{{Cite web |url=https://www.st.nu/vasternorrland/harnosand/5i12-priset-2017-gar-till-alexandra-pascalidou |title=5i12-priset 2017 går till Alexandra Pascalidou |website=st.nu |access-date=2018-10-12|date=December 4, 2017 }}
• 2016 – Nominated for Kristallen and the Big Journalist Award. Nominated for the Big Journalist Prize in the Category Storyteller of the Year : Lisa Jarenskog and Alexandra Pascalidou, for the documentary series They Call Us Beggars on Swedish TV, SVT. {{cn|date=October 2018}}
• 2016 – The Big Feminist Award.
• 2015 – European of the Year.{{Cite web |url=https://neoskosmos.com/en/43939/alexandra-pascalidou-targeted-by-extreme-nationalists-in-sweden/ |title=Alexandra Pascalidou targeted by extreme nationalists in Sweden |website=neokosmos.com |access-date=2018-10-12|date=October 18, 2017 }}
• 2014 – Postkodmiljonären Won a million SEK with Lena Ag and donated the money to Kvinna till Kvinna.
• 2002 – The Swedish PEN-club Berns prize.
• 2002 – The Union of Civil Servants’ Working Award
• 2002 – Kommunal, the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union's Culture Award.
• 2000 – Integration Award.
• 1998 – The Immigrant Institute's Merit Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wef.org.in/alexandra-pascalidou/ |title=Alexandra Pascalidou Journalist, Producer, Writer, TV & Radio-Hostess |website=wef.org |date=August 16, 2017 |access-date=2018-10-12}}

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009). Pascalidou appeared briefly in this film as a Swedish TV reporter covering the protagonist's trial.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060612232123/http://www.aftonbladet.se/kvinna/0006/25/pascalidou.html Aftonbladet interview with Pascalidou]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100817194216/http://www.resor.nu/alexandra-pascalidou/ Interview with Alexandra about Athens]
• [http://www.tv4play.se/aktualitet/nyhetsmorgon?videoId=1.1574154 Alexandra talks about her new cookbook in TV4]{{Dead link|date=April 2016}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427221753/http://www.laxhjalpen.se/laxa/stiftelsen_30.html Board of the foundation Läxhjälpen]
• [https://www.trendingclash.com/sara-tendulkar/ Sara Tendulkar]

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