by Annette Seglem | Feb 15, 2017 | Gjester 2016, Gjester 2017, News 2013
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...
by Annette Seglem | Nov 27, 2015 | Gjester 2016
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....
by Annette Seglem | Nov 27, 2015 | Gjester 2016
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...
by Annette Seglem | Nov 27, 2015 | Gjester 2016, Guests 2016
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...
by Annette Seglem | Nov 27, 2015 | Gjester 2016, Guests 2016
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...
