by Annette Seglem | Apr 4, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2017
Kim Leine is a Norwegian- born, Danish author. In 2013 he won the Norwegian Council’s Literature prize for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord (2011). His most recent work was the novel De Søvnløse (2016).
by Annette Seglem | Apr 4, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2017
Asta Olivia Nordenhof is a Danish author. She debuted in 2011 with the prose collection Et ansikt til Emily, and has most recently published a poetry collection Det nemme og det ensomme (2013), which she has received great notice for. In 2013 she was awarded...
by Annette Seglem | Apr 4, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2016, Gjester 2017, News 2013
Ivo de Figueiredo was born in Langesund in 1966. He is a cand.philol. specializing in history and has published numerous articles regarding the period of Norwegian occupation, the Nasjonal Samling and the Norwegian settlement after the 2nd World War. His breakthrough...
by Annette Seglem | Apr 4, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2017, News 2013
Josefine Klougart is a Danish author and editor of the literary periodical Den Blå Port. Since debuting with her novel, Stigninger og fall (2010), Klougart has demonstrated that she is a promising and productive writer, well-received both in Denmark and...
by Annette Seglem | Apr 4, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2017
Dag Solstad debuted in 1965 with his collection of short stories, Spiraler in 1965 and has since been one of the country’s most noteworthy authors. Solstad has received the Kritikerprisen three times and in 1989 he was awarded the Norwegian Council’s...
by Annette Seglem | Mar 1, 2017 | Gjester 2014 @en, Gjester 2017, News 2013
Athena Farrokhzad was born in 1983 in Tehran, Iran and raised in Gothenberg, Sweden. She is a poet, playwright, translator, literary critic and teacher at Biskops-Arnös forfattarskole. When she debuted in 2013 with Vitsvit, it was a wake-up call both in Sweden and...
