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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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.
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Simon Stranger
Simon Stranger er en norsk forfatter. Han er oppvokst på Lilleaker i Oslo.
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Maria Navarro Skaranger
Maria Navarro Skaranger er født i 1994 og er fra Oslo. Debutromanen hennes, Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner, ble solgt til Danmark allerede før utgivelse i Norge. Skaranger ble tildelt Debutantprisen 2015 og nominert til Tarjei Vesaas Debutantpris 2015 for denne romanen. I 2018 utkom den kritikerroste romanen Bok om sorg (Fortellingen om Nils i skogen). For denne ble Skaranger tildelt Osloprisen 2018.
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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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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.
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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 -
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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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. -
Tore Renberg
Norwegian author Tore Renberg (born 1972) made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose "Sovende floke".
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His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.
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Olaug Nilssen
Fekk sitt store gjennombrot med Få meg på, for faen i 2005. Boka braut tabu knytte til ungdom og seksualitet og blei definerande for ein heil generasjon. Sidan den gong har ho skrive bøker i mange sjangrar og markert seg som ei uvanleg og viktig stemme i norsk litteratur. I boka og teaterstykket Stort og stygt tematiserer ho det å vere forelder for eit barn som ikkje er som dei andre, for første gong. Med Tung tids tale bryt ho igjen tabu, denne gongen med ei uvanleg openheit om det å vere mor til eit sterkt funksjonshemma barn.
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Agnes Ravatn
Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.
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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».
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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. -
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.
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Don Martin
Writes books on Business and Finance, usually with his wife, Renee Martin.
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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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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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Maria Kjos Fonn
Maria Kjos Fonn (f. 1990) ble nominert til Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris og mottok Aschehougs debutantstipend for novellesamlingen Dette har jeg aldri fortalt til noen i 2014. Romanen Kinderwhore kom ut høsten 2018. Den fikk strålende kritikker, er oversatt til flere språk og ble blant annet nominert til Brageprisen og P2-lytternes romanpris. Maria Kjos Fonn arbeider også som frilansskriben
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Thomas Korsgaard
"Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.
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Gulraiz Sharif
Gulraiz Sharif (f.1984) er fra Oslo og jobber som lærer. Hør her'a! er hans første roman.
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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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Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken and brother of film director Stefan Faldbakken. [wikipedia]
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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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Tore Renberg
Norwegian author Tore Renberg (born 1972) made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose "Sovende floke".
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His novel "Mannen som elsket Yngve" was made into a movie in 2008, and instantly became a major success in Norwegian cinemas.
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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.
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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). -
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn is an author and journalist who lives in Oslo, Norway. He made his literary début with the novel Eg kom for å elske in 2002 and his début as a children’s author with Tomorrow We Will Sit in the Sun (I morgen skal vi sitte i solen). His YA novel Så vakker du er was awarded the Brage Prize for best children’s and youth book in 2013. Tjønn is also a journalist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2001, he started the electronic press Jung Forlag, through which he operates the literary portal jung.no, as well as the journal Nordahl & eftf.
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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.
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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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Gulraiz Sharif
Gulraiz Sharif (f.1984) er fra Oslo og jobber som lærer. Hør her'a! er hans første roman.
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James Gardner
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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.
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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 -
Don Martin
Writes books on Business and Finance, usually with his wife, Renee Martin.
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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.
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She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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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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Marta Breen
MARTA BREEN (b. 1976) is an author of non-fiction with a number of publications to her name. Among other things, she has written the story of women in Norwegian music, the book ”Born Feminist” and the bestseller ”60 Women You Should Know About” in collaboration with illustrator Jenny Jordahl. They have also worked together on the book «The F Word», which won the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s textbook prize for young people.
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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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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. -
Camara Lundestad Joof
(f. 1988) er ein norsk-gambisk scenekunstnar og dramatikar. Det kunstnariske arbeidet hennar er i hovudsak dokumentarisk og tek for seg interseksjonalitet, dekolonialisme og normkritikk. Ho er med og leiar Den Mangfaldige Scenen, og har spela over to hundre framsyningar i Skandinavia med den sjølvbiografiske soloførestillinga Pavlovs tispe. Frå 2018 er Joof Husdramatikar på Dramatikkens Hus.
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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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Trude Marstein
Trude Marstein is a Norwegian author. She attended Telemark University College and studied creative writing studies.
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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. -
Lars Mytting
Lars Mytting er en norsk journalist og forfatter. Mytting har arbeidet som forlagsredaktør og journalist i Dagningen, Aftenposten, Arbeiderbladet og Beat.
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Arbeidet senere som forlagsredaktør, før han fikk utgitt romanen Hestekrefter i 2006. -
Linn Skåber
Linn Skåber er en norsk skuespiller, komiker og tekstforfatter som har vært aktiv siden midten av 1990-tallet. Hun har i hovedsak befattet seg med humoristiske roller, både på TV og på scenen.
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Lena Lindgren
Lena Lindgren (f. 1969) bor i Oslo. Hun er til daglig politisk kommentator i Morgenbladet. Ekko. Et essay om algoritmer og begjær er hennes første bok.
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Sigbjørn Mostue
Sigbjørn Mostue is a norwegian editor and author of children's books. His literary debut was in 2005, when the first book in the trilogy of Alvetegnet (which would be something like "The Sign of the Elves" in English) was published. The two following books in the series came in 2006 and 2007. These books are written in some sort of magical realism, where the story take place both in the "real world" and a parallel, fairytale-like world on "the other side", populated by magical creatures. Many of these figures can also be found in norwegian folklore.
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His books are popular among norwegian children and teenagers, but have not yet been translated to English. In 2006, the movie rights of Alvetegnet were sold to SF Norway.
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Stig Sæterbakken
Stig Sæterbakken was a Norwegian author. He published his first book at the age of 18, a collection of poems called Floating Umbrellas, while still attending Lillehammer Senior High School. In 1991, Sæterbakken released his first novel, Incubus, followed by The New Testament in 1993. Aestethic Bliss (1994) collected five years of work as an essayist.
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Sæterbakken returned to prose in 1997 with the novel Siamese, which marks a significant departure in his style. The following year saw the release of Self-Control. And in 1999, he published Sauermugg. The three books, the S-trilogy—as they are often called—were published in a collected edition in 2000.
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Helene Uri
Helene Uri is a Norwegian linguist, novelist, and children's writer. She has published a number of novels, children's books and young adult novels, as well as nonfiction books.
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Kari Anne Bye
Kari Anne Bye kjem frå Trondheim. Ho har bakgrunn frå drama og teater og er utdanna historikar frå NTNU.
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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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Cora Sandel
Cora Sandel was the pen name of Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius, a Norwegian writer and painter who lived most of her life abroad. Her most famous works are the novels now known as the Alberta Trilogy.
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Sara Cecilia Görvell Fabricius was born in Kristiania (now Oslo). Her parents were Jens Schow Fabricius (1839–1910) and Anna Margareta Greger (1858–1903). When she was 12 years old, financial difficulties forced her family to move to Tromsø where her father was appointed a naval commander. She started painting under the tutelage of Harriet Backer, and while still a teenager moved to Paris, where she married the Swedish sculptor Anders Jönsson (1883–1965). In 1921 they returned to Sweden, where she won custody of her son Erik after divorcing Jön -
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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Neda Alaei
Neda Alaei er oppvokst i Moss. Hun ble uteksaminert fra forfatterstudiet ved Norsk barnebokinstitutt i 2017. Hun er utdannet barnevernspedagog, og til daglig er hun miljøterapeut og jobber med ungdom. "Dette er ikke oss" er hennes første roman.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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 -
Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i morgen (1999).
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Brødre i blodet ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called Beyond the Great Indoors.
His debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals. In all his novels he has spoken the outsiders' cause, as he did in his break-through novel Hvite Niggere ("White Niggers") in 1986. T -
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.
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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 -
Heidi Linde
Heidi Linde er født i Asker i 1973. Hun har gått på forfatterstudiet i Bø og er utdannet manusforfatter fra den Norske Filmskolen på Lillehammer. Hun debuterte med barneboka Myggstikk i 1998, og i 2002 kom den første romanen Under bordet. Hun har også skrevet radiodramatikk, og gikk av med seieren i den nordiske hørespillkåringen i Helsinki i 2008 for hørespillet Schmokk.
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Ida Hegazi Høyer
Ida Hegazi Høyer er opprinnelig dansk-egyptisk, har røtter i Lofoten, og er oppvokst i Oslo. Hun har studert sosiologi, men nå skriver og bor hun i Oslomarka.
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Else Kåss Furuseth
Else Kåss Furuseth is a Norwegian standup comedian, actress, reporter, and television presenter.
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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. -
Sophie Elise Isachsen
Sophie Elise Isachsen is a Norwegian blogger, influencer, DJ and author. She lives in Oslo.
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Arnhild Lauveng
Arnhild Lauveng is a Norwegian psychologist educated at the University of Oslo, who previously was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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She workes as a PhD candidate at Akershus University Hospital (AHUS), at the department for mental health.
She has written two autobiographies dealing with her diagnosis of schizophrenia.
In 2004 she won the "Prisen til fremme av ytringsfriheten innen psykisk helsevern" (The Award for the promotion of freedom of expression within mental health care).
In 2008 she was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award, and in 2010 the Åpenhetsprisen, an award for people who has made a special effort speaking openly about and highlighting mental health in public space.
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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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Nina F. Grünfeld
Nina Grünfeld is best known for her several personal documentaries that have all been shown on television. In addition to making films and writing books, Nina is a professor at Inland Norway University where she teaches directing for documentary films. Nina participates in public debates and lectures for children and youth, various cultural institutions and public and private businesses.
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Nina Grünfeld er professor i dokumentarfilmregi ved Høgskolen Innlandet i Lillehammer og eier og driver filmselskapet Gründer Film. Som filmskaper er Nina Grünfeld kjent for sine personlige dokumentarfilmer som er blitt vist på tv og ved filmfestivaler i Norge og utlandet. I 2020 ga hun ut den fortellende sakprosaen 'FRIDA - Min ukjente farmors -
Demian Vitanza
Marco Demian Vitanza (f. 1983) er halvt italiensk, han har vokst opp i Halden, har en master fra London School of Economics og har gått på Aschehougs dramaskole. Eller som han selv liker å si: Marco Demian Vitanza er en ansamling mennesker som bor i samme kropp. "Urak" er deres første bok.
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Agnar Mykle
Agnar Mykle was a Norwegian author.
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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.
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Einar Stenseng
Einar Stenseng, født 1982, er bosatt i Oslo. Han er vokalist, musiker og låtskriver. En riktig stygg bok er hans første roman.
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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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Linnéa Myhre
Linnéa Myhre er fra Molde. Med bloggen Alt du vet er feil ble hun kåret til årets beste blogger under både Vixen Blog Awards og Costume Awards i 2011. Serien La Linnéa leve som gikk på NRK P3s nett-tv fikk pris for beste nett-tv-serie i 2012.
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Hun debuterte i 2012 med romanen Evig søndag, som hun fikk Tabuprisen for. Siden har hun utgitt romanene Kjære (2014) og Hver gang du forlater meg(2016). Sistnevnte vant hun ARK-prisen for. -
Selma Lønning Aarø
Selma Lønning Aarø (f. 1972) kommer fra Stord, men bor nå i Fredrikstad. Hun debuterte i allerede i 1995 med Den endelige historien, som var vinner av Cappelens konkurranse for beste debutroman. Aarø har utgitt en rekke bøker i ulike sjangere, og har skrevet både for voksne og barn. Hun har også redigert tre årganger av Cappelens debutantantologi Signaler – alle med Nils-Øivind Haagensen som medredaktør.
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Vill ni åka mera? (2003), har blitt betegnet som Aarøs gjennombrudd. Med denne romanen ble hun også nominert til Brageprisen.
Barnebøkene om tøffe Milla (Milla bestemmer, 2016, Milla leter etter gull, 2019 og Milla redder Amazonas, 2021), alle illustrert av Tiril Valeur, er blitt favoritter både for ferske lesere og som høytlesningsbøker.
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Tom Kristensen
Norwegian author of thrillers and suspense novels.
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Odd Karsten Tveit
Norwegian journalist, writer and economist. His speciality is the Middle East, a subject on which he has written several books. Tveit has been a foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in the Middle East through three periods, from 1979 to 1983, from 1990 to 1994, and from 2003 to 2007.
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Kristin Solberg
Kristin Elisabeth Solberg er en norsk journalist som fra februar 2015 er NRK-korrespondent med base i Istanbul.
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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.
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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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Sigrid Agnethe Hansen
Sigrid Agnethe Hansen (f. 1989) er programleiar og produsent i NRK Troms. Ho debuterte med boka Ser du dette? i 2020. I 2023 fekk Hansen Blixprisen for den andre boka hennar, Du veit ingenting.
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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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Cecilia Samartin
I was born in Cuba at the height of the revolution. My family left when I was nine months old so I have no memories of my own, although I "borrowed" countless memories from my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
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I grew up in a quiet Los Angeles suburb and secretly dreamed of becoming a writer, but after high school I decided to study psychology instead and became a marriage and family therapist. I'm glad I did because my experience as a therapist is what finally inspired me to face my fears, and embrace my dream of becoming a writer.
Most of my clients over the years have been immigrants like me so many of my stories reflect the themes of lost homeland, and the search for meaning/identity in a new world.
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Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen
Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen (f. 1998) er artist, klimaaktivist og frontfigur i bandet ISÁK. I 2018 vant hun NRKs Sternekamp.
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Sigurd Hoel
Sigurd Hoel was a Norwegian author and publishing consultant.
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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