Marta Breen

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  Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu

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  Jacky Fleming

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  Knut Hamsun

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  Erlend Loe

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  Dag Solstad

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  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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  Frode Grytten

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  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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  Vigdis Hjorth

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  Agnes Ravatn

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  Kyrre Andreassen

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  Édouard Louis

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  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  Maria Kjos Fonn

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  Romy Hausmann

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  Thomas Korsgaard

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  Zeshan Shakar

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

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  Andrev Walden

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  Oliver Lovrenski

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  Sumaya Jirde Ali

  Sumaya Jirde Ali (f. 1997) er en norsk-somalisk samfunnsdebattant, litteraturkritiker, dramatiker, forfatter og poet.
  
  I 2017 kom Jirde Alis første diktsamling, Kvinner som hater menn, og året etter kom samlingen Melanin hvitere enn blekemiddel og pamfletten Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg. I 2021 utga hun diktsamlingen Når jeg ser havet, slokner lyset.
  
  For sine bidrag til norsk offentlighet har Jirde Ali fått Osloprisen Årets stemme, Zola-prisen, Ord i Grenseland-prisen og Den norsk Forfatterforeningens Ytringsfrihetspris. I 2021 ble hun også tildelt Amalie Skram-prisen.

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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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  Yannis Hamilakis

  Yannis Hamilakis has studied at the University of Crete (BA History and Archaeology), and the University of Sheffield (MSc and PhD). He has taught at the University of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2005). He has been Wiener Lab Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens (2002-2003), Mary Seeger O'Boyle Fellow at Princeton University (1999), Library Fellow at Princeton University (2000), Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati (2003), Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2005-2006) and Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2012-13). He was the 2005 Royal Academy of Sweden-funded visiting lecturer to all Swedish Classics Departments, a

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  Jenny Jordahl

  Jenny Jordahl er illustratør, designer, blogger og tegneserietegner og forfatter.
  
  Hun er velkjent for sine samarbeidsprosjekter med Marta Breen, med bøker som F-ordet og 60 damer du skulle ha møtt. Førstnevnte tittel fikk Kulturdepartementets Fagbokpris i 2015.
  
  Hun illustrerer en fast miljøspalte i Aftenposten junior og lager sin egen tegneserie: Livet blant dyrene.

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  Anja Dahle Øverbye

  Anja Dahle Øverbye er en norsk tegneserieskaper og illustratør. Hun er utdannet ved Kunstskolen i Bergen. I tillegg har hun en BA innen visuell kommunikasjon fra KIAD i England.
  
  Hennes første tegneserieroman, Hundedagar, kom i 2015. Boka var inspirert av egen oppvekst på Nordvestlandet og er en oppvekstskildring om rivalisering mellom jenter i tidlige tenår. Den vant Årets tegneserie 2016 på Oslo Comix Expo.
  
  Anja Dahle Øverbye gir også jevnlig ut tegninger og tegneserier på sin egen blogg, Haustlauv. Her har hun blant annet beskrevet sine personlige opplevelser ved å få en kreftdiagnose.

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