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Lisa Aisato

Lisa Aisato has established herself as one of Norway's most celebrated illustrators. Throughout her career, she has been a magazine illustrator and written and illustrated six of her own children's books, including Odd Is an Egg, which was turned into an award-winning film. She has also illustrated more than thirty books for other authors, including The Snow Sister by Maja Lunde and The Girl Who Wanted to Save the Books by Klaus Hagerup. Lisa's books have been translated into forty languages, and her artwork can be found in homes all over the world.

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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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Frida Nilsson

Frida Nilsson (born 1979) is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.

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Svetlana Slapšak

Author of many books and articles.

Sphere of research: ancient studies, anthropology, balkanology, linguistics, literature, feminism.

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Flo Perry

Flo Perry is a writer and illustrator, former BuzzFeed editor and expert on making illustrations go viral. She was born and raised in the wilds of North London and still lives there with two lovely homosexual housemates and a terrible cat. Her book How to Have Feminist Sex was published in 2019.

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Lisa Balavoine

Lisa Balavoine vit et travaille à Amiens comme professeur-documentaliste.
Eparse est son premier roman, dont des extraits ont été publiés dans la revue Décapage.

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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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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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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.

Not to be confused with Danish-Swedish gender studies scholar Nina Lykke.

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Agnes Ravatn

Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.

Debuterte i 2007 med romanen Veke 53.

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Lisa Aisato

Lisa Aisato has established herself as one of Norway's most celebrated illustrators. Throughout her career, she has been a magazine illustrator and written and illustrated six of her own children's books, including Odd Is an Egg, which was turned into an award-winning film. She has also illustrated more than thirty books for other authors, including The Snow Sister by Maja Lunde and The Girl Who Wanted to Save the Books by Klaus Hagerup. Lisa's books have been translated into forty languages, and her artwork can be found in homes all over the world.

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Else Kåss Furuseth

Else Kåss Furuseth is a Norwegian standup comedian, actress, reporter, and television presenter.
Some of her best known work includes the tv comedy show Torsdag kveld fra Nydalen (2009 - 2014) and the theatre performance Kondolerer (2011), in which she tells the story of her mother’s and brother’s suicides. Her performance in Kondolerer were nominated to four Komiprisen awards.

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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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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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Thomas Korsgaard

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

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Marie Aubert

Marie Grønborg Aubert er født i 1979 og bosatt i Oslo. Kan jeg bli med deg hjem er hennes debutbok. For åpningsnovellen i denne samlingen vant Marie Aubert novellekonkurransen Litteratur på Blå arrangerte i samarbeid med Vinduet våren 2013.

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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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Klaus Hagerup

Klaus Hagerup was a Norwegian stage director and dramatist. He made a name for himself as a writer of award-winning books for children and young people. Two of his books have been made into films. Five of his novels featured the unpredictable Markus Simonsen; the series has gained enormous popularity both within and outside Norway, where Mr. Hagerup resides.

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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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Tegnehanne

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

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Alexander L. Kielland

Of the most famous realistic writer of the 19th century, Alexander Lange Kielland ranks as one of the "four greats" of Norwegian literature alongside Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Jonas Lie.

Born wealthy, he as a factory owner with a sincere affection for the less fortunate treated his workers well. He, a critic of society throughout his time as a writer, spoke for the weak. His best known plays were the satirical comedies Tre Par (1886) and Professoren (1888). He was also well known for his short stories.

Among his most famous works are the novels Gift (1883), Skipper Worse (1882) and Garman & Worse (1880). Gift (published in English as Poison ) is the first of a trilogy including Fortuna (1884) and St. Hans Fest (1887).

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Agnar Lirhus

Agnar Lirhus er forfatter, musiker og lærer.

Han har arbeidet bl.a. som matros på sjøen og på bibliotek. Ved Norges musikkhøgskole utdannet han seg på klassisk gitar. Han har spilt i flere lokale band i Moss, og han har spilt i Superfamily hvor han først var en av danserne før han tok over bassen som vokalist Steven Wilson til da hadde traktert.
Høsten 2006 forlot Lirhus Superfamily for å konsentrere seg mer om skrivingen.
Han debuterte på Oktober forlag høsten 2005 med romanen "Skogen er grønn". Den ble lytternes utvalgte til P2s Romanpris-konkurranse samme høst. I 2006 utkom romanen "Til øya".
Lirhus har studert ved forfatterstudiet i Bø.

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Camilla Helene Sandmo

Instagram: @camilla.sandmo

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Mandy Hager

Mandy Hager is a multi-award winning writer of fiction, most often for young adults. She has won the LIANZA Book Awards for Young Adult fiction 3 times (‘Smashed’ 2008, ‘The Nature of Ash’ 2013, ‘Dear Vincent’ 2014), the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards for YA fiction (‘The Crossing’ 2010), an Honour Award in the 1996 AIM Children’s Book Awards (‘Tom’s Story’), Golden Wings Excellence Award (‘Juno Lucina,’ 2002), Golden Wings Award (‘Run For The Trees’, 2003) and Five Notable Book Awards.
She has also been awarded the 2012 Beatson Fellowship, the 2014 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and the 2015 Waikato University Writer in Residence.
In 2015 her novel ‘Singing Home the Whale’ was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year award, and th

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Kajetan Kovič

Rodil se je 21. oktobra 1931 v Mariboru., v učiteljski družini. Otroška leta je preživljal v Poljčanah, kjer je končal prve tri razrede osnovne šole. V četrtem razredu pa se je družina zaradi vojne preselila v Hrastje Mota blizu Gornje Radgone. Tam je spoznal kmečko življenje in tegobe vojnega časa, hkrati pa se mu je pokrajina ob Muri močno vtisnila v spomin. Številne njegove pesmi oživljajo prav podobe narave ob Muri. V tem času je obiskoval šolo v Vučji vasi, Gornji Radgoni ter Mariboru. Po vojni se je s starši preselil v Slatino Radenci in nadaljeval s šolanjem v Mariboru. Obiskoval je klasično gimnazijo v Mariboru, kjer je leta 1950 maturiral. Nato se je vpisal na študij primerjalne književnosti na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti. Dip

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Trygve Skaug

Den folkekjære artisten Trygve Skaug er kjent for å synge og skrive dikt om de virkelig nære tingene i livet. Hans siste album Stor gutt synger han om hjertevondt, forelskelse og troen sin.

Skaug er låtskriver, musiker og en av Norges mestselgende poeter. Tekstene hans deles vidt og bredt. Diktsamlingene «Følg med nå» (2019) og «Ikke slipp» (2020) er alene trykket i over 42 000 eksemplarer. Også senere samlinger, som «Hjemmekamp» (2020), «Opprykk» (2021) og «Dikt til navngitte menn» (2022), har blitt oppsiktsvekkende suksesser. I et intervju med VG sier Trygve Skaug selv om suksessen: – At folk finner trøst i mine ord, trøster meg også. Tekstene mine er skrevet veldig nakent, ærlig og upretensiøst. Derfor treffer det meg hardt når jeg kan v

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Linn Skåber

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