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Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.

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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).

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Hanne Ørstavik

Hanne Ørstavik (born 28 November 1969) is a Norwegian writer. She was born in Tana in Finnmark province in the far north of Norway, and moved to Oslo at the age of 16. Her parents are Wenche Ørstavik and Gunnar Ørstavik. She has two brothers, Paul Ørstavik and Sakse Ørstavik.She has one daughter, Mari Ørstavik. She has two nieces, Maisie and Helena, and two nephews, Murphy and Thomas. With the publication of the novel Hakk (Cut) in 1994, Ørstavik embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Kjærlighet (Love<?i>), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a

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Monika Fagerholm

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Kristin Valla is a Norwegian author. She has written three novels and a book of non-fiction on Dagny Juel.

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The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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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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Her first book was non-fiction, and focused on the problems of child prostitution and street children in third world, and poverty in Sweden. April witch is her second novel, and one that was well received in Sweden. With over 400,000 copies sold in hardcover, It landed on several bestsellers lists for months and received important Swedish literature awards including the Moa Martinsson Prize Jörgen Eriksson's Prize and Augustpriset. It addresses themes of mother-daughter relationships, competition between women, and the failures of Sweden's postwar welfare state.

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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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Tore Renberg

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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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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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Niels Fredrik Dahl

Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.

Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.

Dahl er en av Norges mest markante forfatterne og har utgitt noveller, dikt, gjendiktning og skuespill. Hans første roman "Journalisten" utkom i 1997. For romanen "På vei til en venn" (2002) ble han tildelt Brageprisen. Han ble også nominert til Kritikerprisen og P2-lytternes pris. Både denne og romanen "I fjor sommer" (2003) er oversatt til en rekke språk

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Lena Andersson

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Agnes Ravatn

Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.

Debuterte i 2007 med romanen Veke 53.

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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.
Arbeidet senere som forlagsredaktør, før han fikk utgitt romanen Hestekrefter i 2006.

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Karl Ove Knausgård

Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.

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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Maria Kjos Fonn

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Thomas Korsgaard

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

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Andrev Walden

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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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Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven was born in 1978 in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then she has written sixteen books, including children's books, several poetry collections, a novel, and two plays. Her work has been translated into Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. Among other prizes, she has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize (for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle). Her first crime novel is the prize-winning Everything Is Mine, which has become an international bestseller.

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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.

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.

Skomsvold's books are translated into more

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Ingmar Bergman

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He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the stark landscape of his native Sweden, and major themes were often bleak, dealing with death, illness, betrayal, and insanity.

Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously threatened in 1976 when he suspended a nu

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Tenna Vagner

Tenna Vagner (f. 1978 i Esbjerg) skriver fantasy, realisme og horror til unge og fantasifulde voksne. Tenna har baggrund som psykiatrisk fysioterapeut, vejleder og mentor for unge og unge voksne i psykiatrien og bruger sin indsigt i mennesker, når hun skriver.
”Karaktererne skal gerne opføre sig og tale som ”rigtige” mennesker og indeholde både godt og knap så godt. Intet menneske er fuldstændig ondt eller godt, og det skal også gælde de personligheder, vi møder i bøger. Noget at det allerfedeste ved at skrive er overraskelsen, når personer eller plot snor sig i mønstre, jeg ikke havde forudset. Så er det bare med at holde fast og følge med.”

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Ebba Witt-Brattström

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Marit Kaldhol

Marit Kaldhol (b. 1955) is a Norwegian poet and author.

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Michael Strunge

Michael Strunge er en af 1980’ernes helt store lyrikere. I løbet af sit 27 år korte liv nåede han at udfri hele 11 digtsamlinger fra sin rablende poetiske hjerne. Det er poesi, der kan baske til enhver sløv læser. Energien er til tider så rå og konkret, og til andre tider så fuld af drøm, at man bliver ganske forført. 80’ernes punkmiljø og dets særlige musik og æstetik var en stærk inspirationskilde for Strunge.

Det stod klart allerede fra debutsamlingen “Livets hastighed” og blev ligeledes markeret med hans annoncerede afsked med punken i digtsamlingen “Skrigerne”. Tematisk kredser digtene om død, afmagt, storbyens fremmedgørelse, (selv)udslettelse, men også kontrasterne i form af liv, rus, storbyens autenticitet og (selv)forherligelse. Fo

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Victoria Kielland

Victoria Kielland, født 1985, opprinnelig fra Fredrikstad, bor i Oslo. Hun er en av initiativtakerne til skrivekollektivet A.K.R.O.N.Y.M.

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Kirsten Hammann

Kirsten Hammann, f. 1965, debuterede som forfatter i 1992 med digtsamlingen MELLEM TÆNDERNE, som sikrede hende Klaus Rifbjergs Debutantpris for lyrikere.

Hendes første roman, VERA WINKELVIR, udkom i 1993. Herefter er fulgt BANNISTER (1997), BRUGER DE ORD I KAFFEN? (2001), FRA SMØRHULLET (2004), der blev nomineret til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris, EN DRÅBE I HAVET (2008), SE PÅ MIG (2011) og i 2015 udkom romanen ALENE HJEMME. Kirsten Hammann har desuden udgivet børnebogen CHOKOLADEESKAPADE i 1998. I 2017 er hun aktuel med OFTE STILLEDE SPØRGSMÅL.

I 2011 modtog Kirsten Hammann Statens Kunstfonds livsvarige ydelse. Derudover har hun bl.a. modtaget Beatrice-prisen 2005 og Danske Banks Litteraturpris 2008.

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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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Inger Hagerup

Inger Hagerup (1905-1985) debuterte i 1939 med "Jeg gikk meg vill i skogene". Den ble siden fulgt av en rekke fine samlinger, som "Videre" (1945) og "Strofe med vinden" (1958). Hennes dikt for barn er klassikere i vår barnelitteratur. Inger Hagerup har skrevet hørespill og gjendiktet Shakespeare og Goethe. Hennes erindringer "Det kommer en pike gående", "Hva skal du her nede", "Ut og søke tjeneste" ble utgitt i 1960-årene.

Inger Hagerup er framfor alt kjærlighetens poet. Men hun er også dødens dikter, for mange av hennes beste dikt kretser om dette motivet. Et tredje karakteristisk trekk er hennes opprørske engasjement, som har fått brennende intense uttrykk. Barnediktene hører med til den litteratur som alle barn i vårt land har fått et nær

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Cornelius C. Steinkjer

Cornelius C. Steinkjer (f. 1998) er født og oppvokst i Oslo. Han jobber som journalist. Sorl er hans første bokutgivelse.

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Dea Trier Mørch

Dea Trier Mørch was a Danish artist, novelist, and socialist.

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Thorkild Hansen

Thorkild Hansen (9 January 1927 – 4 February 1989) was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is commonly associated with his trilogy about the Danish slave trade including Slavernes øer (1970) for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971.

Hansen was born at Ordrup in Gentofte Municipality, Denmark. He attended Holte Gymnasium and from 1945-47 studied literature at the University of Copenhagen. In 1947, he moved to Paris where he wrote dispatches for the Copenhagen-based Ekstra Bladet. After returning to Denmark in 1952, he devoted his efforts to a series of novels. Several featured aspects of the Danish era of imperialism. Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition (1962) covered the Danish Arabia

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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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Sigurd Hoel

Sigurd Hoel was a Norwegian author and publishing consultant.
His literary career began with the short story «Idioten» («the Idiot») from 1918, when he won a writing contest. The same year he became an employee of «Socialdemokraten» («The Social Democrat», a newspaper) as a literature and theater critic.

In 1924 he traveled to Berlin to study socialism, and there he wrote his first novel, «Syvstjernen» (The Seven Star), before moving to Paris for a short time.

During the war Hoel and his wife went back to Odalen. He participated in the Resistance, and wrote articles for the Resistance press. In 1943 he was forced to flee to Sweden.

Hoel had a short connection to the landsmål movement, but later played an active part in the riksmål campaign. He

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