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Torbjørn Ekelund

Torbjørn Lysebo Ekelund er en norsk journalist og forfatter.

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I’m Brontë, a food writer and co-founder of ScandiKitchen, a café, grocery shop, online store and wholesale business. After I moved from Denmark to the UK and started a career in finance, I quickly realised that wasn’t for me. After some happy years working for Innocent drinks, I launched ScandiKitchen with my Swedish husband Jonas on 10th July 2007 – and gave birth to our first child a few hours later, just for an additional challenge.

So far, I’ve authored a few cookery books and published my own guide to hygge after an essay I wrote about it caused a mini media controversy. My mostly non-food book Nørth: How To Live Scandinavian is a humorous, but incisive look at what it means to be Scandinavian. I also manage to get out of the kitchen t

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Jon Fosse

Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.

He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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Simon Stranger

Simon Stranger er en norsk forfatter. Han er oppvokst på Lilleaker i Oslo.

Stranger har gått på Forfatterstudiet i Bø og studert filosofi ved Universitetet i Oslo.

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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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Monica Isakstuen

Monica Isakstuen was born in Oslo and raised in Asker.
She made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel Avstand² and published a book of poems, Alltid nyheter, in 2011.
She works and lives in Fredrikstad.

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Lotta Elstad

Lotta Elstad (født 19. desember 1982) er en norsk forfatter, journalist og redaktør.

Hun har blant annet skrevet for Morgenbladet, Dagens Næringsliv, Klassekampen og LO-Aktuelt. Hun har også jobbet for Forlaget Manifest og Manifest Tankesmie.

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Johan B. Mjønes

Johan B. Mjønes er en norsk forfatter og skribent fra Orkanger.

Mjønes debuterte i 2009 med romanen Terminalhastighet på Aschehoug forlag.
I august 2010 ga han ut sin andre roman Orkanger. Boken handler om mobbing, hevn og livslangt skjebnefellesskap. 27. februar 2013, på førtiårsdagen for okkupasjonen av Wounded Knee, ga Mjønes ut Fortellingen om sju bål.
I oktober 2013 debuterte Mjønes som ungdomsbokforfatter med romanen Død manns kiste. Mellom 2009 og 2014 foreleste Mjønes på Aschehougs forfatterskole sammen med Kari Fredrikke Brænne.

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Mímir Kristjánsson

Mímir Kristjánsson er samfunnsdebattant, forfatter og politiker. Han har vært nyhetssjef i Klassekampen, og har i tillegg til Jon Michelet. En Folkets helt (2021) gitt ut bøkene Mamma er trygda (2019), De superrike (2011), Frihet, likhet, Island (2015) og Hva ville Gerhardsen gjort? (2018).

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Narine Abgaryan

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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award.

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Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. Lunde has written ten books for children and young adults. She has also written scripts for Norwegian television, including for the children’s series Barnas supershow (“The Children’s Super Show”), the drama series Hjem (“Home”) and the comedy series Side om Side (“Side by Side”). The History of Bees is her first novel for adults. She lives with her husband and three children in Oslo.

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Tom Egeland

Born in 1959, Egeland worked as journalist for a magazine and as a reporter and editor for Aftenposten before working in television. In 2006, he became a full-time fiction writer. His books include horror, suspense, and multiple children's book. His most famous novel, Relic, which predated Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is so simillar some readers speculated it influenced Brown, but the author has said they simply drew on similar sources. In 2009 he won the Riverton Prize.

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Abid Raja

Abid Qayyum Raja (born 5 November 1975 in Oslo) is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Liberal Party. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway Akershus in 2013 where he serves as second deputy chair of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications and also is a member of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs.

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Fran Sandham

Fran Sandham was an editor at Rough Guides for several years, and worked in bookselling and in the voluntary sector before that. He has traveled in over fifty countries. He now lives in London and Wirral, and divides his time between freelance writing and public speaking. He has written for many newspapers, magazines and travel publications, including the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Financial Times,Adventure Travel, Traveller magazine, Travel Africa and Country Walking.

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Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor. He published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams (1988), to positive reviews. However, it was Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992), a million-copy best seller, that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. His books have been published in more than thirty countries.

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Bergsveinn Birgisson

Bergsveinn has a PhD in Nordic Studies from the University of Bergen. He has published two volumes of poetry, Íslendingurinn (The Icelander) and Innrás liljanna (The Invasion of the Lilies), and four novels, Landslag er aldrei asnalegt (Landscape is Never Stupid), Handbók um hugarfar kúa (A Handbook on the Attitude of Cows), Svar við bréfi Helgu (Answer to Letters from Helga), and Den Svarte Vikingen (The Black Viking) which is written in Norwegian.
He has also helped with the Norwegian translation of the Icelandic medieval saga Flateyarbók

Bergsveinn lives in Bergen, Norway.

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Oliver Lovrenski

Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.

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Kathleen Grissom

Born Kathleen Doepker, I was privileged as a child to be raised in Annaheim, Saskatchewan, a hamlet on the plains of Canada. Although we lived in a small, tightly knit Roman Catholic community, I was fortunate to have parents who were open to other religions and cultures. Since television was not a luxury our household could afford, books were the windows that expanded my world.

Soon after Sister Colette, my first grade teacher, introduced me to Dick, Jane, and Sally, I began to read on my own. I was a fanciful child and became so influenced by books that while I was reading Five Little Peppers And How They Grew I ate only cold boiled potatoes (the truth is this lasted only for a day) as I suffered with them through their hardships. After

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Herbjørg Wassmo

Herbjørg Wassmo (born Vesterålen, December 6, 1942) is a Norwegian author. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag" ("Beating of Wings"). Her major breakthrough was her first novel, "Huset med den blinde glassveranda" ("The House with the Blind Glass Porch") in 1981.
Her best known book is Dinas bok (Dina's Book) from 1989. This novel was made into a film with the title "I Am Dina" in 2002, starring Maria Bonnevie and Gérard Depardieu.

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Olav H. Hauge

Olav Håkonson Hauge was a Norwegian poet. He was born in Ulvik and lived his whole life there, working as a gardener in his own orchard.

Aside from writing his own poems, he was internationally oriented, and translated poems by Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Bertolt Brecht and Robert Bly to Norwegian.

He was also inspired by classical Chinese poetry, e.g. in his poem "T`ao Ch`ien" in the collection Spør vinden (Ask the wind).

Hauge's first poems were published in 1946, all in a traditional form. He later wrote modernist poetry and in particular concrete poetry that inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vo

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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".

His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.

Renberg is also a musician and a literary critic. He lives in Stavanger on the west coast of Norway.

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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.
Helga Flatland regnes blant de fremste av unge norske fremadstormende forfattere. Hun har fått et stort publikum for måten hun beskriver menneskelige prosesser som sorg, tilknytning og

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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.
Helga Flatland regnes blant de fremste av unge norske fremadstormende forfattere. Hun har fått et stort publikum for måten hun beskriver menneskelige prosesser som sorg, tilknytning og

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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».

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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Cristina Sanders

Cristina Sanders is an historical novelist, book reviewer and trail runner who grew up in Wellington and now lives in Hawke’s Bay.

She is a volunteer crew member for the Spirit of Adventure Trust, and a board member of the New Zealand Society of Authors.

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Trude Teige

Trude Johanne Teige is a Norwegian journalist and author of crime novels.

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Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books.
Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made th

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Trude Teige

Trude Johanne Teige is a Norwegian journalist and author of crime novels.

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Vetle Lid Larssen

Vetle Lid Larssen er en norsk journalist og forfatter. Han har vært journalist i Morgenbladet og Aftenposten, der han spesielt utmerket seg for sine velskrevne portrettintervjuer.
For tiden er han spaltist i A-magasinet. Han har også arbeidet som frilansreporter for NRK og TV 2. Han har blant annet mottatt Gullpennen (1991), Oslo og Bærums Riksmålsforenings pressepris (1991), Arne Hestenes’ journalistpris (1993) og Sarpsborgprisen (1996).

Hans skjønnlitterære debut kom i 1990 med boka 2. Boka var et oppgjør med 68-generasjonens forhold til barna sine og fikk mye oppmerksomhet.

Lid Larssens romaner er oversatt til blant annet italiensk, dansk og tysk.

Vetle Lid Larssen er sønn av avdøde skuespiller Lars Andreas Larssen, forfatteren Sonja Lid og

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Johanne S. Refseth

Johanne S. Refseth er psykolog, forfatter og influenser. Hun har bred klinisk erfaring og fordypning i terapimetoden ISTDP. Refseth medvirker ofte som psykolog på radio og TV, og er en populær og dyktig foredragsholder.
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Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied law at the University of London and later worked as lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s most reputable law firms; in 2016, he was an International Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Tan's first novel, The Gift of Rain (2007), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and Serbian. The Garden of Evening Mists (2011), his second novel, won the Man Asian Literary Prize and Walter Scott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life). He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature.

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Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson is a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, Norway, as well as a scientific advisor for The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research NINA.

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Simon Stranger

Simon Stranger er en norsk forfatter. Han er oppvokst på Lilleaker i Oslo.

Stranger har gått på Forfatterstudiet i Bø og studert filosofi ved Universitetet i Oslo.

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Agnes Ravatn

Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.

Debuterte i 2007 med romanen Veke 53.

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Åsne Seierstad

Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
She is fluent in five languages and lives in Norway.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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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.

Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.

As a journalist he has mainly worked for Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper of Bergen, Norway. He is also writing for the Oslo-based national newspaper Dagbladet.

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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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Tore Renberg

Norwegian author Tore Renberg (born 1972) made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose "Sovende floke".

His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.

Renberg is also a musician and a literary critic. He lives in Stavanger on the west coast of Norway.

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Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life). He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature.

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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.

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.

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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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Oliver Lovrenski

Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.

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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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Delia Owens

Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa—Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and International Wildlife, among many others. She currently lives in Idaho, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.

You can also connect with Delia on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authordeliao...

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Trude Marstein

Trude Marstein is a Norwegian author. She attended Telemark University College and studied creative writing studies.
At the University of Oslo she studied pedagogy, psychology, and the history of literature.
She debuted in 1998 with a collection of prose titled "Sterk sult, plutselig kvalme" for which she received Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.

In 2004 she was named one of Norway's ten best authors under the age of 35 by the Norwegian Festival of Literature and Morgenbladet.
"Plutselig Høre Noen Åpne en Dør" was named one of the 25 best Norwegian books the last 25 years by Dagbladet.

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Zeshan Shakar

Zeshan Shakar (born 1982) is a Norwegian political scientist and author.

Shakar won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris for his literary debut Tante Ulrikkes vei.

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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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Thomas Korsgaard

"Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.

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Gunnar Staalesen

Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. Staalesen has a cand.philol degree from Universitetet i Bergen and he has worked at Den Nationale Scene, the main theater in Bergen.

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Olja Knezevic

Olja Knezevic was born and raised in Montenegro, but has lived in California, Belgrade, London and Zagreb.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, London, and was awarded an Overall Prize for the best MA Creative Writing dissertation of the year 2008. That dissertation grew into the novel ‘Milena & Other Social Reforms’, which ended up being published first in Montenegro, then in Croatia.

In both countries, it was a bestseller, although criticised harshly by the Government of Montenegro and the Government regime’s writers and reviewers. 'Milena' is now available in English.

Besides 'Milena & Other Social Reforms', Olja is the author of two more novels: 'Gospoda Black' (2015) and the award-winning 'Katarina, Velika i Mala' (2

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Elbert L. Little

Elbert Luther Little

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Henrik H. Langeland

Henrik Helliesen Langeland is a Norwegian novelist and literary researcher.

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Gunnar Sønsteby

Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. He is also known for being the most highly decorated person in Norway, including being the only one to have been awarded the War Cross with three swords.

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Marianne Fredriksson

Marianne Fredriksson was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist on various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.

Fredriksson published fifteen novels, most of which have been translated into English, German, Dutch and other languages. Most of her earlier books are based on biblical stories. A central theme in her writings is friendship because, as she maintained, "friendship will be more important than love" in the future.

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Jan Guillou

Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a Swedish author and journalist. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with Liza Marklund and his common-law wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp.

Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist. In 1973, he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet.

In October 2009,

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Lorelou Desjardins

Lorelou is French and has been living in Norway for 12 years. She writes a blog about the quirkiness of Norwegian culture on www.afroginthefjord.com and has published one book about integrating in Norway, published in English and Norwegian. She writes in a witty way about serious topics, from Norwegian food to politics or even working culture. Before moving to Norway she lived in 7 countries and has much experience in adapting to new lifestyles and cultures. She is also a columnist in Norway's most read newspaper Verdens gang, and has been featured in CNN, Elle Great Britain, and more.

In her daily life Lorelou studied international law and South East Asian Studies. She works on plastic pollution reduction worldwide. She speaks fluently Fren

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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 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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John Duffy

Dr. John Duffy is a clinical psychologist.

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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.
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

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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.

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

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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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Halldis Moren Vesaas

Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907-1995) voks opp i Trysil og debuterte 22 år gammal med diktsamlinga "Harpe og dolk". Ho og ektemannen, forfattaren Tarjei Vesaas, busette seg i Vinje i Telemark, og dei reiste mykje, i Norden og Europa for øvrig, og knytte verdfulle kontaktar med andre diktarar slik at heimen deira, Midtbø, vart litt av eit nordisk kultursentrum.

Halldis Moren Vesaas kom med tre diktbøker før krigen, men dei mest kjende dikta står i samlingane "Tung tids tale" (1945), "Treet" (1947) og "I ein annan skog" (1955). Ho har òg gitt ut mange andre slags bøker - barnebøker, ein roman, noveller i "Så nært deg" (1987), og dessutan biografiske bøker om Sven Moren og Tarjei Vesaas, artiklar og essays og diktantologien "Vandre med vers" (1990).

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Janne S. Drangsholt

Janne Stigen Drangsholt er en norsk forfatter. Hun debuterte med romanen Humlefangeren i 2011.

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.

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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.

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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Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullmann is the daughter of actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman.

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

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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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Sigrún Pálsdóttir

Sigrún Pálsdóttir is a writer and historian. Born in Reykjavík in 1967, she completed a PhD on the history of ideas at the University of Oxford in 2001, after which she was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Iceland. She worked as the editor of Saga, the principal peer-reviewed journal for Icelandic history, from 2008 to 2016, and she has been a freelance writer since 2007. She first came to prominence as a writer of historical biographies. Her debut in 2010 was the acclaimed Þóra biskups (Thora: A Bishop’s Daughter), followed by Ferðasaga (Uncertain Seas) in 2010, the story of a young couple and their three children who were killed while sailing from New York to Iceland aboard a ship torpedoed by a German submarine in 1944

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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.

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.

During the Norwegian language struggle, Bjørneboe was a notable proponen

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Anne Karin Elstad

Anne Karin Elstad was a Norwegian author known for her book series featuring the character Julie.

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Magnus Magnusson

Magnus Magnusson, KBE, was an Icelandic television presenter, journalist, translator and writer. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist, and was best known as the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind, which he hosted for 25 years.

Under Icelandic naming conventions, his name would have been Magnús Sigursteinsson (Magnús, son of Sigursteinn), but his family adopted British naming conventions and he took his father's surname. Although born in Reykjavík, Magnusson grew up in Edinburgh, where his father, Sigursteinn Magnússon, was the Icelandic consul.

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Inga H. Sætre

Inga Sætre (f. 1978) er utdannet animatør. Hun vant Kulturdepartementets priser for barne- og ungdomsbøker 2011, kategorien for beste tegneserie. Sætre fikk Brageprisen for "Fallteknikk" i 2011. Hun var nominert til Nordisk råds litteraturpris med samme bok i 2013. I 2016 mottok Inga Sætre Kulturdepartementets litteraturpris for for barne- og ungdomslitteratur med boken "Fyrvokterne".

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Tegnehanne

Hanne Sigbjørnsen, aka Tegnehanne, is a Norwegian blogger and illustrator.

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Anders Nordstad

Anders Nordstad er siviløkonom, tidligere generalsekretær i Norsk bonde- og småbrukarlag og en ettertraktet foredragsholder. Han har jobbet med kornhandel i Norge og Tyskland og soyainnkjøp fra Brasil.

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Agnar Mykle

Agnar Mykle was a Norwegian author.
He became one of the most controversial figures in Norwegian literature in the 20th century after the publication of «Sangen om den Røde Rubin» («The Song of the Red Ruby») in 1957 which ignited what became one of the most famous court cases in Norwegian history.
Mykle and his publisher Harald Grieg were accused of writing and publishing immoral, pornographic, and obscene material. Mykle's defense attorney was Johan Bernhard Hjort. Mykle and Grieg were both acquitted, but the remaining copies of the book were ordered withdrawn from the market. The Norwegian Supreme Court overturned the ruling on the confiscation in 1958.

The translations of The Song of the Red Ruby gathered tremendous attention outside of

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Brit Bildøen

Brit Bildøen (født 28. januar 1962 i Ålesund) er en norsk forfatter og lyriker, oppvokst på Aukra. Bildøen er utdannet som, og har arbeidet som bibliotekar, har studert sosiologi og gått på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland. Hun arbeider nå som forfatter, gjendikter, oversetter, forlagskonsulent og litteraturkritiker, blant annet for Dagbladet fra 1996. Hun har vært medlem av Den norske forfatterforeningens litterære Råd. Hun var i 2001 festspilldikter for Dei nynorske festspela i Ørsta.

Bildøen debuterte litterært i 1991 med diktsamlingen «Bilde av menn», og har mottatt flere priser. Hennes roman «Tvillingfeber» (1998) ble dessuten nominert til Brageprisen. Romanen «Alt som er» (2004) ble som den første boken på nynorsk av en kvinnelig forfa

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Bård Torgersen

Bård Torgersen (f. 1967) var tidlig på 1980-tallet en sentral skikkelse i Oslos musikalske subkultur. Han var vokalist i postpunkbandet Masters of Mø, og på nittitallet ble han en av pionerene på den norske elektronikascenen, senere har han stått bak flere musikalske prosjekter i grenselandet mellom musikk og litteratur. Bård Torgersen debuterte i 2005 med romanen Alt skal vekk, og har etablert seg som en markant og kritikerrost forfatter. Torgersen har deltatt i en rekke antologier, gitt ut sju diktsamlinger og sju romaner. Lengter knuser slår er hans åttende roman.

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Stel Pavlou

Stel Pavlou is the British international bestselling author of adult fiction. Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War is his first novel for young readers. Stel has written screenplays for Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson, and stories for Doctor Who. He lives in Colorado with his family, a dog named Rocket, and the ghosts of two chickens.

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Nini Roll Anker

Nini Roll Anker (born Nicoline Magdalene Roll) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright.

She is known as one of the most important authors of Norwegian new realism. Her writing also supports the views of the women's rights movement and the rights of the working class. In one of her most knowns novels "Det som Henger i en Tråd" (1935) she portrays the hard and difficult life of the seamstresses in the factories.

She was a prominent figure in the 20s and 30s. She was both an aristocrat and a rebel; a feminist, socialist and pasifist, but did have social relations with the Norwegian royal family. This gave her the nickname "the royal court communist".

She was born into and part of an upperclass enviroment, and at the age of 19 she married landowne

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Ancius M. Murray

Ancius M. Murray is a collective pen name for an Irish-Lithuanian team (a physicist, a lawyer, a creative writer) who met by chance, and collaborated on this novel over the course of four years.

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Hilde Østby

Hilde Østby (f. 1975) er idéhistoriker, forfatter, journalist og tidligere forlagsredaktør. Hun debuterte i 2013 med den kritikerroste romanen Leksikon om lengsel.

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Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen

This author also writes under the pen name B. Andreas Bull-Hansen.

Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen er en norsk forfatter, blogger, youtuber og tidligere toppidrettsutøver innen styrkeløft.

Han debuterte som forfatter i 1996 med «Syv historier fra Vestskogen», og har under forfatternavnene Andreas Bull-Hansen og B. Andreas Bull-Hansen også utgitt romanserien «Horngudens tale», «Lushon»-trilogien og «Tyr»-trilogien.

I 2017 fikk han sitt gjennombrudd med romanen «Jomsviking», den første boken i serien om jomsvikingen Torstein Knarresmed. Andre bok i serien, «Vinland», kom i 2018.

Han skriver også svært detaljert om seiling og også hvordan man bygger en båt i «Anubis», «Evercity», og i «Jomsviking»-serien.

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Eva Hornung

aka Eva Sallis

is an Australian novelist. Eva Hornung was born 1964 in Bendigo. She has an MA in literature and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Adelaide. Sallis lived in Yemen while undertaking research for her PhD, and now lives and works in Adelaide.

Hornung's first novel, the best-selling "Hiam", won the 1997 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the 1999 Nita May Dobbie Literary Award. Her second novel City of Sealions was well received, and her novel-in-stories, Mahjar won the Steele Rudd Award. Her 2005 book Fire Fire, told the story of gifted children growing up in a dysfunctional, loving family in 1970s Australia. Her 2009 novel Dog Boy won the 2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. She i

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Kristin Solberg

Kristin Elisabeth Solberg er en norsk journalist som fra februar 2015 er NRK-korrespondent med base i Istanbul.
Tidligere har hun vært korrespondent for Aftenposten og den svenske avisen Dagens Nyheter i Afghanistan, Pakistan og India. Hun har bodd i Kairo og dekket Midtøsten.
Hun har bachelor i journalistikk og master i internasjonale relasjoner ved London School of Economics.
I 2014 fikk hun Den store journalistprisen og Bjørnsonprisen. Sammen med Per Edgar Kokkvold ble hun tildelt den aller første Gunnar Sønstebys minnepris i 2015.

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Joakim Kjørsvik

Joakim Kjørsvik, født 1978, bor i Oslo. Han debuterte med Åpenbart ingen nabo (2007), en samling fortellinger som ble svært godt mottatt av kritikerne. I 2013 ga han ut romanen I fjor var en lang natt, hvor man følger en navnløs jeg-person på hans omflakkende vandring gjennom Oslos underverden.

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Ida Pfeiffer

Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author. She was one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into seven languages.

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Ketil Bjørnstad

Ketil Bjørnstad is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz".

He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some 20 books (predominantly novels) and a number of poetry and essay collections.

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Jolanta Waldner

Gimiau 1977 metais, Kaune.
Iki šiol gyvenu Kaune (net pati negaliu tuo patikėti).

Prisipažinsiu, gyvenimas nebuvo nei labai lengvas, nei pasakiškai gražus. Ne kartą esu kritusi ar pastumta veidu į purvą, bet visada turėjau kažkokią šviesą viduje, kuri tikėjo, kad jei kovosiu, vieną dieną viskas bus gerai. Ir žinote, aš kabinausi į tą šviesą, svajojau, grūmiausi už savo svajones ir jos ėmė pildytis.
Meluosiu, jei sakysiu, kad svajojau parašyti knygą jau vaikystėje. Ne. Buvau kaip visos padaužos mergaitės. Laipiojau medžiais, piešiau princeses ir norėjau būti policininke, išgelbėti pasaulį nuo „blogiečių“.
Nepradėjau skaityti nuo ketverių ir nekūriau pasakų vos pradėjusi vaikščioti, bet kai jau pradėjau skaityti, pasakas skaičiau dieną, skaičiau

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Penelope Todd

Todd, Penelope (1958- ) spent her first thirty years in Christchurch, and now lives in Dunedin. She works freelance as a manuscript consultant and editor.

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Ida Jackson

Ida Jackson har skrevet bøker for barn og voksne siden 2008. Noen av hennes mest kjente og kritikerroste er sakprosaboken Morfar, Hitler og jeg (2014) og ungdomsromanen Danielle (2016). Hun har også skrevet den bestselgende barnebokserien om Brillebjørn og lettlest-serien om Lena.

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Stein Torleif Bjella

Stein Torleif Bjella er fødd i 1968 på Ål. Han er kjend som musikar og rimsmed. I 2017 debuterte han som forfattar med den kritikerroste diktsamlinga Jordsjukantologien. Fiskehuset er Bjellas første roman.

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Hans Olav Lahlum

Hans Olav Lahlum (born 12 September 1973) is a Norwegian historian, crime author, chess player and organizer, and politician. He has written biographies on Oscar Torp and Haakon Lie, and a history book about all the Presidents of the United States.

On May 22–23, 2013, he was interviewed by VG for 30 hours, 1 minute and 44 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record for the longest interview ever, beating the previous record by over four hours.

Lahlum is an active chess player with a FIDE rating of 2193 as of March 2014, having been an International Arbiter since 2000.

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