Flemming Rose

Danish journalist

Flemming Rose is Opinion and Culture Editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's largest newspaper, since 2009. He joined the paper in 2004 as its Culture Editor, and in 2005 he commissioned the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that sparked riots across the Muslim world. Previously he spent 14 years abroad as a foreign correspondent for Jyllands-Posten and Berlingske Tidende, 11 years in the Soviet Union and Russia and 3 years in Washington DC.

Rose has a BA in Russian language and literature from the University of Copenhagen and worked as a translator before he became a journalist. He has translated several novels – as well as the political memoirs of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin – from Russian into Danish. He is also the author of The Catastrophe that did not happen: Russia in Change 1992-1996 (1997) and American Voices (2006), and has contributed essays to several anthologies. In autumn 2010 his book about the cartoon crisis will be published in Denmark.