Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He wrote nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times.
His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation. His early books were considered somewhat controversial, due to their political emphasis (leaning towards the Marxist–Leninist side of the political spectrum).
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Ali Teoman
Asıl adı Ali Tataroğlu'dur. İstanbul'da doğdu. Orta öğrenimini İstanbul Alman Lisesi’nde, yükseköğrenimini ise İTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, MSÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi ve Sorbonne Üniversitesi Plastik Sanatlar Fakültesi’nde tamamladı. Bir süre iş ve öğrenim nedeniyle yurtdışında bulunduktan sonra 1993'de İstanbul’a döndü ve yazmaya daha fazla zaman ayırmak için mimarlığı bırakarak çeşitli üniversitelerde İngilizce okutmanı olarak çalıştı. Bir süre sokak müzisyenliği yaptı.
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1980'li yılların sonuna doğru öykü yazmaya başlayan Ali Teoman 1992 yılında, İnsansız Konağın İkonu isimli öyküsüyle, Milliyet Gazetesi'nin düzenlediği yarışmada ikincilik ödülü aldı. Ali Teoman'ın tam 16 yıl gizli kalmış bir sırrı, ortaya çıktığında edebiyat dünyasını çok şaşırtmış -
Jon Fosse
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Ida Kathrine Gravensteen
Ida Kathrine Gravensteen (f. 1988) er rettsmedisiner og forsker. Hun er lidenskapelig opptatt av å tilgjengeliggjøre medisinsk kunnskap og bidra til åpenhet om tabubelagte temaer. I mange år har hun drevet med formidling gjennom et hundretalls podcastepisoder, blant annet i radioprogrammet Abels tårn på NRK P2, gjennom aviskronikker og på sosiale medier. Hva vi levende kan lære av de døde er hennes første bok.
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Lena Lindgren
Lena Lindgren (f. 1969) bor i Oslo. Hun er til daglig politisk kommentator i Morgenbladet. Ekko. Et essay om algoritmer og begjær er hennes første bok.
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Kyrre Andreassen
Kyrre Andreassen er en norsk forfatter, utdannet cand.mag. ved Universitetet i Oslo med fagene idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og nordisk. Han debuterte i 1997 med novellesamlingen «Det er her du har venna dine».
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For sin andre bok, romanen «Barringer» (1999), ble han nominert til Brageprisen. Han har også skrevet to teaterstykker: enakteren «Dette stedet» (2002) og «Polar» (2003). I 2006 kom romanen «Svendsens Catering», som Andreassen ble tildelt Språklig samlings litteraturpris for, og i 2007 mottok han Sultprisen for sitt forfatterskap. -
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Monica Isakstuen
Monica Isakstuen was born in Oslo and raised in Asker.
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Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen
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Agnes Ravatn
Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.
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Matias Faldbakken
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Gine Cornelia Pedersen
Gine Cornelia Pedersen (f. 1986) fikk Tarjei Vesaas debutantpris for den kritikerroste romanen Null i 2013, som siden utkom på engelsk og tysk. Deretter fulgte romanene Kjærlighetshistorie (2015) ogVår i det hinsidige (2018). Åtte er hennes første novellesamling.
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Oliver Lovrenski
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Camara Lundestad Joof
(f. 1988) er ein norsk-gambisk scenekunstnar og dramatikar. Det kunstnariske arbeidet hennar er i hovudsak dokumentarisk og tek for seg interseksjonalitet, dekolonialisme og normkritikk. Ho er med og leiar Den Mangfaldige Scenen, og har spela over to hundre framsyningar i Skandinavia med den sjølvbiografiske soloførestillinga Pavlovs tispe. Frå 2018 er Joof Husdramatikar på Dramatikkens Hus.
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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Tore Renberg
Norwegian author Tore Renberg (born 1972) made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose "Sovende floke".
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His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.
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Knut Hamsun
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
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He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. -
Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class litera
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Erlend Loe
Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.
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In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor. -
Tore Renberg
Norwegian author Tore Renberg (born 1972) made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose "Sovende floke".
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His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.
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Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.
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Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.
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Amalie Skram
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Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. She moved to Denmark in 1894 where she settled in Copenhagen with her husband, the Danish writer Erik Skram. She is considered the most important female writer of the Modern Breakthrough. -
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Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland) (23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature.
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Her most famous work is her only novel, Amtmandens Døtre (The District Governor's Daughters) which was published anonymously in two separate parts in 1854 and 1855. The book is considered one of the first political and social realism novels in Norway and deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchical society in general and forced marriages specifically. It is believed that her personal experiences in life, specifically h -
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Karl Ove Knausgård
Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. -
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Kyrre Andreassen er en norsk forfatter, utdannet cand.mag. ved Universitetet i Oslo med fagene idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og nordisk. Han debuterte i 1997 med novellesamlingen «Det er her du har venna dine».
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For sin andre bok, romanen «Barringer» (1999), ble han nominert til Brageprisen. Han har også skrevet to teaterstykker: enakteren «Dette stedet» (2002) og «Polar» (2003). I 2006 kom romanen «Svendsens Catering», som Andreassen ble tildelt Språklig samlings litteraturpris for, og i 2007 mottok han Sultprisen for sitt forfatterskap. -
Kathrine Nedrejord
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Helga Flatland
Helga Flatland har bachelorgrad i Nordisk språk og litteratur fra Universitetet i Oslo og har tatt treårig utdanning på tekstforfatterlinjen på Westerdals School of Communication. Hun debuterte med romanen "Bli hvis du kan. Reis hvis du må" (2010), som fikk overstrømmende kritikker. For denne ble hun tildelt Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris, Ungdommens kritikerpris, Aschehougs debutantstipend, og hun ble nominert til P2-lytternes romanpris. Hun befestet sin posisjon med "Alle vil hjem. Ingen vil tilbake" (2011). "Det finnes ingen helhet" (2013) avslutter trilogien.
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Maria Kjos Fonn
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Thomas Korsgaard
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Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn is an author and journalist who lives in Oslo, Norway. He made his literary début with the novel Eg kom for å elske in 2002 and his début as a children’s author with Tomorrow We Will Sit in the Sun (I morgen skal vi sitte i solen). His YA novel Så vakker du er was awarded the Brage Prize for best children’s and youth book in 2013. Tjønn is also a journalist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2001, he started the electronic press Jung Forlag, through which he operates the literary portal jung.no, as well as the journal Nordahl & eftf.
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Abid Raja
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Gulraiz Sharif
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Tuğba Doğan
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Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Carl Frode Tiller
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Deirdre Madden
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Knut Hamsun
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Lars Saabye Christensen
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Don Martin
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Marc Augé
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Roy Jacobsen
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Marta Breen
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Lars Mytting
Lars Mytting er en norsk journalist og forfatter. Mytting har arbeidet som forlagsredaktør og journalist i Dagningen, Aftenposten, Arbeiderbladet og Beat.
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Morten A. Strøksnes
MORTEN STRØKSNES is a Norwegian historian, journalist, photographer, and writer. He has written reportage, essays, portraits, and columns and reviews for most major Norwegian newspapers and magazines. He has published four critically acclaimed books of literary reportage and contributed to several others.
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Nina Lykke
Nina Lykke (f. 1965) debuterte i 2010 med den kritikerroste novellesamlingen Orgien, og andre fortellinger. Romanen Oppløsningstendenser (2013) fikk strålende anmeldelser og ble kortlistet til P2-lytternes romanpris. I 2016 fikk Lykke sitt store gjennombrudd med romanen Nei og atter nei (2016), som vant Ungdommens kritikerpris og ble en salgssuksess i Sverige og Tyskland så vel som i Norge. Full spredning. En legeroman er Nina Lykkes fjerde bok og for den vant hun Brageprisen 2019.
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Erlend Loe
Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.
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In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor. -
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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Anne B. Ragde
Norwegian author Anne B. Ragde (b 1957) made her literary debut in 1986 with the children’s book HALLO! HER ER JO! Since then, she has written several books for children and young adults, among them a biography about Sigrid Undset, for which she was awarded the Brage Prize. Her first novel for adults, EN TIGER FOR EN ENGEL was published in 1990. She has since written several novels, crime novels and short story collections. Her novel BERLIN POPLARS received a warm welcome from both readers and critics, and has so far sold more than 250 000 copies in Norway, and is translated to more than 15 languages. It was reviewed favorably by the Financial Times on April 28, 2008. The sequels HERMIT CRABS and PASTURES GREEN were a no lesser success. The
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Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist whose powerful, psychologically rich works made her one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. Best known for her medieval sagas Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 for her vivid portrayals of life in the Middle Ages, written with remarkable historical detail and emotional depth.
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Born in Denmark to Norwegian parents, Undset spent most of her life in Norway. After her father's early death, she had to forgo formal education and worked as a secretary while writing in her spare time. Her debut novel Fru Marta Oulie (1907) shocked readers with its opening confession of adultery and established her bold, realist style. -
Sebastian Castillo
SEBASTIAN CASTILLO is a writer and teacher living in Philadelphia. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up in New York. His work has appeared in NY Tyrant, Peach Mag, Electric Literature, The Fanzine, BOMB, and elsewhere. He is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels (Bottlecap press, 2017), NOT I (word west, 2020), and SALMON (Shabby Doll House 2023).
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Johan Harstad
Johan Harstad is a Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award (Brageprisen), previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over 11 countries. In 2009, he was named the first ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was made into a TV series in 2009 starring The Wire’s Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo.
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Mina Lystad
Mina Lystad is a Norwegian author, journalist, and photographer, and has 11 years experience as a screenwriter for television.
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In her work she explores subjects such as fear and anxiousness, and feeling alone in the midst of great emotion. -
Henri Pirenne
Henri Pirenne was a leading Belgian historian. He also became prominent in the non-violent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I.
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Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history. First, what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade; secondly, for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history; and, thirdly, for his model on the development of the medieval city.
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Kristin Valla
Kristin Valla is a Norwegian author. She has written three novels and a book of non-fiction on Dagny Juel.
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Valla grew up in Finneidfjord in Northern Norway. She currently lives in Oslo with her husband and two sons.
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Kjersti Synneva Moen
Kjersti Synneva Moen (f. 1995) er illustratør og tegneserieskaper. Hun kommer fra Selbu i Trøndelag, men bor og arbeider som frilanser i Oslo.
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Kjell Askildsen
Kjell Askildsen (f. 1929) debuterte med novellesamlingen Heretter følger jeg deg helt hjem i 1953. Askildsen har fått Kritikerprisen to ganger, for novellesamlingene Thomas F's siste nedtegnelse til almenheten (1983) og Et stort øde landskap (1991). Han har også blitt tildelt blant annet Aschehougprisen, Doblougprisen og Brages hederspris. Sommeren 2006 kåret Dagbladet novellesamlingen Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten til den beste norske boken utgitt de siste 25 årene. Kjell Askildsens bøker er oversatt til over 20 språk, blant dem engelsk, tysk, fransk og italiensk.
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Karl Ove Knausgård
Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. -
Henrik H. Langeland
Henrik Helliesen Langeland is a Norwegian novelist and literary researcher.
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Kari Anne Bye
Kari Anne Bye kjem frå Trondheim. Ho har bakgrunn frå drama og teater og er utdanna historikar frå NTNU.
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Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval (f. 1980) er bosatt i Oslo og har skrivekunstutdanning fra The University of Melbourne. Hun har gitt ut to musikkalbum under navnet Rockettothesky, og et under eget navn. Hun har publisert skjønnlitterære tekster og essays i tidsskrifter og antologiene Ferskvare og Pilot. Jenny Hval er redaksjonsmedlem i Vinduet. Hun ble i 2010 kåret til en av Norges mest nyskapende kunstnere. Perlebryggeriet er hennes første bok.
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Erika Fatland
Erika Fatland is a Norwegian anthropologist and writer who has written multiple critically-acclaimed books, including Sovietistan and The Border. Fatland was born in Haugesund, Norway, in 1983, and studied at the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen.
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Fatland is best known for her travel writing and has written several books: Her first travel book Sovietistan, published in 2015, was an account of her travels through five post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been translated into 12 languages. This was followed by The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latv -
Cora Sandel
Cora Sandel was the pen name of Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius, a Norwegian writer and painter who lived most of her life abroad. Her most famous works are the novels now known as the Alberta Trilogy.
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Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius was born in Kristiania (now Oslo). Her parents were Jens Schow Fabricius (1839–1910) and Anna Margareta Greger (1858–1903). When she was 12 years old, financial difficulties forced her family to move to Tromsø where her father was appointed a naval commander. She started painting under the tutelage of Harriet Backer, and while still a teenager moved to Paris, where she married the Swedish sculptor Anders Jönsson (1883–1965). In 1921 they returned to Sweden, where she won custody of her son Erik after divorcing Jön -
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist. He principally wrote about the lives of the poor farmers and fishermen, both in his native Norway and among the Norwegian immigrants in the United States. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
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Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen was a Norwegian anthropologist known for his scholarly and popular writing on globalization, identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He was Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously served as the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2015–2016), as well as the Editor of Samtiden (1993–2001), Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (1993–1997), the Journal of Peace Research, and Ethnos.
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Hylland Eriksen was among the most prolific and highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and had been recognized for his remarkable success in bringing an anthropological perspective to a broader, non-academic audience. In Norway, Hyl -
Torborg Nedreaas
Torborg Nedreaas (1906-1987) er en av 1900-tallets fremste norske forfattere, kjent for sitt samfunnsengasjement og sin sikre stil. Hun debuterte med novellesamlingen Bak skapet står øksen i 1945. To år etter kom den første romanen, Av måneskinn gror det ingenting, som også ble hennes gjennombrudd.
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Siden fulgte blant annet den prisbelønte Herdis-trilogien: Trylleglasset (1950), Musikk fra en blå brønn (1960) og Ved neste nymåne (1971). Nedreaas var viljesterk og uredd hele sitt liv. Trass i at hun aldri ga opp sine kontroversielle meninger og sin kommunisme – så seint som i 1975 ble et radiokåseri om NATO stanset av NRK – holdt hun på en livsstil der siameserkatter, sjampanje og østers var selvsagte ingredienser. Mange kjenner også Nedreaas -
Thomas Seltzer
Thomas Seltzer (født 1969) har sine amerikanske røtter i Texas og Kansas og tilbrakte tidlig barndom i det såkalte Rustbeltet i Wisconsin. Han er musiker og programleder, kjent som bassist i Turbonegro og som programleder i NRKs Trygdekontoret. I 2016 laget han dokumentarfilmen I Donald og Hillarys bakgård for NRK, og UXA – Thomas Seltzers Amerika fra 2020 er en av de mest sette norske TV-dokumentarene noensinne – hver episode hadde over én million seere, og i en spørreundersøkelse i regi av Kampanje ble han kåret til den stemmen nordmenn flest stoler på når det gjelder USA. Amerikansk karmageddon. Tanker om mitt fordømte fedreland er Thomas Seltzers første bok.
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Kiruthika
Mathuram Bhoothalingam (pen name Krithika) was a Tamil writer who wrote plays and short stories in Tamil and English.
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started writing under the pen name "Krithika" from an early age. Making her debut with the Tamil-language novel Puhai Naduvil, an acid look at the bureaucracy, she went on to write a number of children's stories, novels, and plays based on the puranas.
Her play Manathile Oru Maru was directed by another famous writer of her time, Chitti (P. G. Sundararajan), with whom she shared a strong bond of friendship. Chitti even authored a book titled An Introduction: Krithika and Mathuram Bhoothalingam. Midway through her career, Krithika also started to write in English.
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A. Madhavan
A. Madhavan (ஆ. மாதவன்) was a Tamil writer born and raised in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was one of the pioneers of realist writing in modern Tamil literature. He has written short stories, novels, essays, and translations and has edited magazines. Furthermore, he was acclaimed by readers and critics alike as the storyteller of the market street, for bringing everyday events of the bazaar he lived in to his literary work.
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He was the recipient of the 2016 Sahitya Academy Award for his collection of articles titled Illakkiya Chuvadukal (Literary Traces).
Selected works
Punalum Manalum (On a River’s Bank)
Krishna Parunthu (Brahmini Kite)
Thoovaanam (Drizzle)
Kaalai (Bull)
Ettavathu Naal (Eighth Day)
Translations from Malayalam:
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Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez er født i 1972 i La Serena, Chile, oppvokst på Kolbotn utenfor Oslo, bosatt i Bergen. Med debutsamlingen Helter (1997) ga han et vitalt tilskudd til norsk poesi. Siden debuten har han utgitt en rekke bøker i ulike sjangrer. Han har dessuten vært redaktør for Cappelen Damms debutantantologi Signaler og for Verden finnes ikke på kartet, en antologi med gjendiktninger av internasjonal samtidspoesi (med Gunnar Wærness). Carmona-Alvarez har mottatt en rekke priser, blant annet Sultprisen, P2-lytternes romanpris og Kritikerprisen. Han er også musiker i flere band
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Tormod Haugland
Tormod Haugland (f. 1962) debuterte med romanen Under i 1994, og har sidan gjeve ut romanar, noveller, dikt og dramatikk.
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Marit Eikemo
Marit Eikemo (f. 1971) er frå Odda og bur i Bergen. Ho har tidlegare arbeidd som tidsskriftredaktør, festivalsjef for Litteratursymposiet i Odda, forlagsredaktør, leiar for Cornerteatret i Bergen og er i dag programsjef for Norsk Litteraturfestival.
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Eikemo debuterte i 1999 med intervjuboka Her, no. Møte med unge menneske. Hennar første roman, Mellom oss sagt, kom i 2006. Eikemo har til saman gitt ut seks romanar, den seinaste er Team Tuva (2021). Ho har også skrive essayboka Samtidsruinar.
Marit Eikemos bøker er både smarte og underhaldande, og har imponert både kritikarar og publikum med sine presise observasjonar av det norske samfunnet og tida vi lever i. Ho mottok Amalie Skram-prisen 2017 for sin forfattarskap, og var festspeldiktar på De -
Ingrid Storholmen
Ingrid Storholmen debuterte i 2001 med "Krypskyttarloven" og fikk stor oppmerksomhet både for denne og for sin neste samling "Skamtalen. Graceland" (2005). Hun utarbeidet "Skamtalen. Graceland" til en forestilling/performance i samarbeid med instruktør, musiker og scenograf. Hun har også skrevet "Sirispelet", en slags mediterende monolog.
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Hennes neste diktsamlinger er "Siriboka" (2007) og "Til kjærlighetens pris" (2011). "Tsjernobylfortellinger" (2009), Storholmens første prosabok, fikk flotte kritiker, og hun ble nominert til blant annet Brageprisen og Kritikerprisen. Boken er utkommet på engelsk i India. Hun er blitt tildelt Bokhandlernes forfatterstipend 2010, Sultprisen 2010 og Tanums kvinnestipend 2011. "Mora som glemte at det var kveld -
Lars Norén
Norén is considered Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright of today. He wrote his first play at age 19. His first publication was a collection of poems - Syrener, snö (Lilac, snow) in 1963. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family relations and the impoverished and routed at the bottom of society.
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Norén became well known in connection with the murders of two policemen in Malexander in 1999. The culprits had received furlough from their incarceration at Österåker jail to participate in Norén's play 7:3.
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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Jan Grue
Author and academic.
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My work deals first of all with embodiment - with what it means to be a body in an endlessly complex world. I've worked in various genres, combining literary exploration and elements of science fiction and speculative fiction, publishing five short story collections, a novel, and several children's books.
My book of autobiographical non-fiction, I Live a Life Like Yours, was first published in Norwegian in 2018. “The book will, in all likelihood, linger as a mile stone signifying that a new maturity is reaching autobiographical literature in Norwegian non-fiction,” wrote Morgenbladet’s Ane Farsethås. Dagbladet’s reviewer called the book ”a literary masterpiece that I recommend in the strongest terms!”, giving the book fi -
Per Petterson
Petterson knew from the age of 18 that he wanted to be a writer, but didn't embark on this career for many years - his debut book, the short story collection Aske i munnen, sand i skoa, (Ashes in the Mouth, Sand in the Shoes) was published 17 years later, when Petterson was 35. Previously he had worked for years in a factory as an unskilled labourer, as his parents had done before him, and had also trained as a librarian, and worked as a bookseller.
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In 1990, the year following the publication of his first novel, Pettersen's family was struck by tragedy - his mother, father, brother and nephew were killed in a fire onboard a ferry.
His third novel Til Sibir (To Siberia) was nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize, and his fourth no -
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen (født 1956) er professor i biologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Han har en stor vitenskapelig produksjon om evolusjon og økologi, og har skrevet en lang rekke populærvitenskapelige bøker. Han har mottatt flere priser for sitt forfatterskap, deriblant Fritt Ords honnør, Humanistprisen og Riksmålsprisen.
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Gert Nygårdshaug
Gert Hermod Nygårdshaug is a Norwegian author. He has written poems, children's books and novels, and is in particular known for the series of crime novels featuring the gastronomer amateur detective Fredric Drum.
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Nygårdshaug's writing enjoys a diverse background from his extensive knowledge and travelling, in particular in South America. Ancient cultures, archaeology, fly fishing, gastronomy and wine are some of the recurring themes in his novels based on his own personal interests and hobbies.
In 2004 the South African film company Lithium Entertainment bought the film rights to four of Nygårdshaug’s books: Mengele Zoo, Himmelblomsttreets muligheter (Heaven’s Flower Tree), Prost Gotvins geometri (Priest Gotvin’s Geometry) and Afrodites bass -
Edvard Hoem
Edvard Hoem (f. 1949) debuterte i 1969 og har sidan vore svært produktiv som romanforfattar, dramatikar, salmediktar og Shakespeare-gjendiktar. For Kjærleikens ferjereiser (1974), Prøvetid (1984), Ave Eva (1987) og Mors og fars historie (2005) vart han innstilt til Nordisk Råds litteraturpris. For Mors og fars historie mottok han Melsomprisen og Petter Dass-prisen, og han vart òg innstilt til Kritikerprisen. Frå 2009-2013 gav Hoem ut biografien om Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson i fire band. I 2011 vart Hoem tildelt statsstipend og i 2013 fekk han Språkprisen. I 2014 gav Hoem ut Slåttekar i himmelen, første band i den bestseljande romanserien om slekta frå Romsdal. Dei fem bøkene, Slåttekar i himmelen (2014), Bror din på prærien (2015), Land ingen ha
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Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i morgen (1999).
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Brødre i blodet ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called Beyond the Great Indoors.
His debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals. In all his novels he has spoken the outsiders' cause, as he did in his break-through novel Hvite Niggere ("White Niggers") in 1986. T -
Janne S. Drangsholt
Janne Stigen Drangsholt er en norsk forfatter. Hun debuterte med romanen Humlefangeren i 2011.
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Drangsholt bor og arbeider som litteraturforsker i Stavanger, der hun er førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap ved Universitetet i Stavanger.
Drangsholt er dr.art. fra Universitetet i Bergen med en avhandling om den britiske forfatteren Ted Hughes. -
Camilla Collett
Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland) (23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature.
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Her most famous work is her only novel, Amtmandens Døtre (The District Governor's Daughters) which was published anonymously in two separate parts in 1854 and 1855. The book is considered one of the first political and social realism novels in Norway and deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchical society in general and forced marriages specifically. It is believed that her personal experiences in life, specifically h -
Heidi Furre
Heidi Furre er forfatter og fotograf. Hun kommer fra Stord, men er bosatt i Oslo.
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Rune Christiansen
Rune Christiansen (f. 1963) ble en sentral og innflytelsesrik litterat allerede med debuten Hvor toget forlater havet i 1986. Han har utgitt tolv diktsamlinger samtidig som han har utviklet et stadig mer markant og bemerkelsesverdig prosaforfatterskap, med romaner som Krysantemum (2009), Ensomheten i Lydia Ernemans liv (2014), Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen (2017) og Saken med den tapte tidens innfall (2021).
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Christiansen er blitt tildelt en rekke priser, bl.a. Dobloug-prisen, Brageprisen og Gyldendalprisen. Han har gjendiktet poeter som Frank Kuppner, Alain Bosquet og Edmond Jabés, og er redaktør for Forlaget Oktobers gjendiktningsserie for samtidspoesi.
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Heidi Linde
Heidi Linde er født i Asker i 1973. Hun har gått på forfatterstudiet i Bø og er utdannet manusforfatter fra den Norske Filmskolen på Lillehammer. Hun debuterte med barneboka Myggstikk i 1998, og i 2002 kom den første romanen Under bordet. Hun har også skrevet radiodramatikk, og gikk av med seieren i den nordiske hørespillkåringen i Helsinki i 2008 for hørespillet Schmokk.
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Linn Ullmann
Linn Ullmann is the daughter of actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman.
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She is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature. She returned to Norway in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism.
Her first novel Before You Sleep was published in 1998. Her second novel, Stella Descending (2001) received glowing reviews. Her third novel Grace was published in 2002 and won the prominent literary award “The reader’s prize” in Norway and was named one of the ten best novels of that year by the prestigious Danish newspaper Weekendavisen.
In 2007, Grace was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK. That same year, Ullmann was awarded the prestigeous Norwegian -
Ingeborg Arvola
Born in Honningsvåg in 1974, grew up in Tromsø and is currently living in Oslo, Norway. Has worked on a lot of different project, including theater plays and working as text writer for the very popular childrens programme Kometkameratene on NRK. Now living in Oslo.
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Awards: Cappelenprisen in 2004 and Havmannsprisen (Ingen dager uten regn) in 2008. -
Jorge Barón Biza
Jorge Barón Biza fue un escritor, periodista, traductor, editor, escritor fantasma, docente y crítico argentino nacido en Córdoba, hijo del también escritor Raúl Barón Biza y de la pedagoga y dirigente radical Rosa Clotilde Sabattini.
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Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel 'The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am'. The book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the P2-listeners' Novel Prize and won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize (judged by The Literary Council of The Norwegian Authors´ Union). It was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013. Skomsvold has dramatized the novel and the play premieres at the National Theatre (Oslo) in 2014.
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In 2012 Skomsvold published her second novel, 'Monsterhuman'. It was shortlisted for the P2-listeners' Novel Prize and Natt & Dag's Best Book of 2012.
The poetry collection 'A Little Sad Mathematics' was published in 2013.
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Maria Kjos Fonn
Maria Kjos Fonn (f. 1990) ble nominert til Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris og mottok Aschehougs debutantstipend for novellesamlingen Dette har jeg aldri fortalt til noen i 2014. Romanen Kinderwhore kom ut høsten 2018. Den fikk strålende kritikker, er oversatt til flere språk og ble blant annet nominert til Brageprisen og P2-lytternes romanpris. Maria Kjos Fonn arbeider også som frilansskriben
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Are Kalvø
Are Kalvø, norsk satiriker og forfatter. Han debuterte i 1994 med boken Absolutt Oslo. Senere har han blant annet gitt ut «håndboken» Kunsten å vere neger (1996), mediesatiren Men fjernkontrollen min får du aldri (1997) og Harry (1999), som gir oss den fullstendige beskrivelsen av Harry-Norge. Dessuten han han utgitt satirebøkene Bibelen 2 (2002, laget sammen med Steffen Kverneland), Syden (2002) og Våre venner kinesarane (2007).
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Jens Bjørneboe
Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization on the whole. He led a turbulent life and his uncompromising humanity would cost him both an obscenity conviction as well as long periods of heavy drinking and bouts of depression, which in the end led to his suicide.
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Jens Bjørneboe's first published work was Poems (Dikt) in 1951. He is widely considered to be one of Norway's most important post-war authors. Bjørneboe identified himself, among other self-definitions, as an anarcho-nihilist.
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Anders Hammer
Anders Hammer (f. 1977) er en prisbelønnet journalist som har utgitt fire bøker og laget en rekke dokumentarfilmer.
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I 2011 ble han tildelt Fritt Ord-prisen for sin uavhengige og kritiske dekning av krigen i Afghanistan. I 2014 fikk han Den store journalistprisen, to ganger har han mottatt Internasjonal reporters journalistpris. I 2021 ble han nominert til Oscar for beste kortdokumentar med «Do not Split» om protestene i Hongkong. -
