Heidi Sævareid

Heidi Sævareid

Heidi Sævereid debuted in 2013 with her Young Adult novel Spranget, which was nominated for the Brageprisen and was awarded the Culture Department’s Debut Award. Her second novel, Slipp Hold, followed in 2015, and in 2016, Slagside – both of which were...
Sofi Oksanen

Sofi Oksanen

Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright Sofi Oksanen (b. 1977) debuted in 2003 with Stalin’s Cows, which won her the recognition of Northern Europe’s readers and critics. Her international breakthrough came not long thereafter with the publication of Purge....
David Mitchell

David Mitchell

Two of Mitchells seven novels has been shortlisted for the Man Booker-price. His authorship startet in 1999 with Ghostwritten. His book Cloud Atlas was adapted for the movies with Tom Hanks as the starring role. Fredric Jameson described his novel like this: «defined...
Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI, born in Sweden in 1978, is the internationally acclaimed author of four novels and six plays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and his plays have been performed by over 100 companies around the world and received...
Rebecca Dinerstein

Rebecca Dinerstein

Rebecca Dinerstein. The term “Friend of Norway” is often employed, but this has seldom been more suitable than as a description of Rebecca Dinerstein. Interested readers know of her Ode to Norwegian brown cheese in The New Yorker and Jonathan Safran Foer’s enthusiasm...