Gunnhild Øyehaug

Gunnhild Øyehaug was born in 1975, grew up in Ørsta, and now lives in Bergen. She holds a Cand.philol. degree and teaches at the Writing Academy in Hordaland (Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland). She made her literary debut in 1998 with a poetry collection and has since written several collections of short stories, novels, and essay collections. She has also written screenplays and plays.

Øyehaug has received both the Sult Prize and the Dobloug Prize for her body of work, and her writing has been translated into several languages. In 2018, the American edition of her novel Wait, Blink (Vente, blinke) was nominated for the National Book Award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States. In 2024, she was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the novel Her kjem sola.