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  Anton Tjechov

  Swedish variant name form for Anton Chekhov

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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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  Pablo Neruda

  Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
  Neruda’s career took him beyond literature into diplomacy, a path that a

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  Mikhail Lermontov

  Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also by his prose.
  
  Lermontov died in a duel like his great predecessor poet, Aleksander Pushkin.
  
  Even more so tragically strange (if not to say fatalistic) that both poets described in their major works fatal duel outcomes, in which the main characters (Onegin and Pechorin) were coming out victorious.
  

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  Tove Jansson

  Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.
  
  Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.
  
  Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.
  
  Jansson's Moomin books have been translated in

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  Jerry Pinkney

  Jerry Pinkney was an American illustrator and writer of children's literature. Pinkney illustrated more than 100 books, including picture books, nonfiction titles and novels. Pinkney's works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors. He was the recipient of five Caldecott Honor books and the winner of the Caldecott Medal for The Lion and the Mouse. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award five times, the Coretta Scott King Honor four times, and was nominated for the prestigious international Hans Christian Anderson Award.

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  Akiko Yosano

  Sometimes Yosano Akiko. See also 与謝野 晶子.
  
  Akiko Yosano was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Showa periods of Japan. Her real name was Yosano Shiyo. She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan.

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  Olga Tokarczuk

  Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
  
  For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
  
  Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The

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  Fatou Diome

  Fatou Diome est née en 1968 sur la petite île de Niodior, dans le delta du Saloum, au sud-ouest du Sénégal. Elle est élevée par sa grand-mère.
  
  Contrairement à ce qu'exigent les traditions de sa terre natale, elle côtoie les hommes plutôt que d'aller aider les femmes à préparer les repas et assurer les tâches ménagères. Toujours en décalage avec le microcosme de l'île, elle décide d'aller à l'école et apprend le français. Sa grand-mère met un certain temps à accepter le fait qu'elle puisse être éduquée : la petite Fatou doit aller à l'école en cachette jusqu'à ce que son instituteur parvienne à convaincre son aïeule de la laisser poursuivre. Elle se passionne alors pour la littérature francophone.
  
  À treize ans, elle quitte son village pour all

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  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.
  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.
  
  In 1971 he received Aftonbladet's literary prize.

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  Sara Lidman

  Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala where her studies were interrupted by her receiving tuberculosis. She achieved her first great success with the novel Tjärdalen (The Tar Still). In this novel and in Hjortronlandet she depicts themes like alienation and loneliness. In this and her following three novels, she described the difficult conditions for poor farmers in the northern Swedish province Västerbotten during the nineteenth century.
  
  Her innovative style was influenced by dialects and biblical language.
  
  In connection with her first four novels, she wrote a number of texts with strong political content. She engaged in protest against the Vietnam War (including traveling t

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  Øyvind Berg

  Øyvind Berg er en norsk lyriker, dramatiker, skuespiller og oversetter. Berg har mellomfag i filosofi og litteratur samt studier i egyptologi fra Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Tromsø.
  Berg debuterte med diktsamlingen Retninger i 1982.
  Hans forfatterskap inneholder både lyrikk, drama og gjendiktninger.
  Han er også en av drivkreftene i teatergruppen Baktruppen.

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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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  Tezer Özlü

  Türk yazar. Özellikle Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri ve Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk olmak üzere az sayıda kitabıyla tanınır. Yazar Demir Özlü ile yazar ve çevirmen Sezer Duru'nun kardeşidir.
  
  Simav'da doğdu. Çocukluğu anne babasının görev yaptığı Simav, Ödemiş ve Gerede'de geçti. İstanbul'a on yaşındayken geldi. Avusturya Kız Lisesi'ne gitti; ancak mezun olmadı. 1961'de yurt dışına çıktı. 1962 - 1963 yıllarında otostopla Avrupa'yı gezdi. Paris'te tanıştığı tiyatrocu ve yazar Güner Sümer'le 1964 yılında evlendi. Birlikte Ankara'ya yerleştiler. Sümer'in AST'ta çalıştığı bu dönemde Özlü Almanca çevirmenlik yaptı. AST'ta 1963-64 sezonunda Sümer'in yönettiği Brendan Behan'ın Gizli Ordu oyununda oynadı. Sümer'den ayrılarak İstanbul'a yerleşti. Geçirdiği raha

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  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.
  
  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

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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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  Anton Tjechov

  Swedish variant name form for Anton Chekhov

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  Karoline Brændjord

  Karoline Brændjord er født i 1990 og bosatt i Oslo. Hun har gått på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland og har studert Nord-Amerika-studier og sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Jeg vil våkne til verden er hennes første bok. Boka ble tildelt Kritikerprisen 2020 og Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris 2020, samt kåret til Litteraturfestivalen Æ Ås favorittlyrikkdebutant 2019-2020.

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  Gunstein Bakke

  Gunstein Bakke (b.1968) was born in Setesdal, a valley in Aust-Agder county in southern Norway. He made his authorial debut in 2000 with the novel Kontoret. All his publications have been well received, but with Maud and Aud he has finally been recognized as one of the most original and interesting voices among Norwegian authors. Bakke's thought-provoking book combines poetic language, polyphonic narrative and astute analysis in a manner that stands out in contemporary Norwegian literature, and Maud and Aud has brought him much acclaim from literary critics as well as several nominations for Norwegian literary prizes. Bakke currently lives partly in Oslo, partly in Gotland.
  Maud and Aud. A Novel About Traffic
  Bakke, Gunstein: Maud og Aud. Ein

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  Karoline Brændjord

  Karoline Brændjord er født i 1990 og bosatt i Oslo. Hun har gått på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland og har studert Nord-Amerika-studier og sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Jeg vil våkne til verden er hennes første bok. Boka ble tildelt Kritikerprisen 2020 og Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris 2020, samt kåret til Litteraturfestivalen Æ Ås favorittlyrikkdebutant 2019-2020.

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  Øyvind Berg

  Øyvind Berg er en norsk lyriker, dramatiker, skuespiller og oversetter. Berg har mellomfag i filosofi og litteratur samt studier i egyptologi fra Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Tromsø.
  Berg debuterte med diktsamlingen Retninger i 1982.
  Hans forfatterskap inneholder både lyrikk, drama og gjendiktninger.
  Han er også en av drivkreftene i teatergruppen Baktruppen.

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