Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and feminist whose writings profoundly shaped twentieth-century philosophy, literature, and modern feminist t…
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
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 pu…
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-f…
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 …
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of shor…
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 sja…
Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the…
Therese Bohman is an editor of the magazine Axess and a columnist for Expressen and Tidningen Vi, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. She lives in Sweden.
Monica Isakstuen was born in Oslo and raised in Asker. She made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel Avstand² and published a book of poems, Alltid nyheter, in 2011. She works and lives in Fredriks…
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…
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 Debutantpri…
Den folkekjære artisten Trygve Skaug er kjent for å synge og skrive dikt om de virkelig nære tingene i livet. Hans siste album Stor gutt synger han om hjertevondt, forelskelse og troen sin.
(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 …
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Priz…
Alexander Kielland Krag er født og oppvokst i Oppegård utenfor Oslo. Han har en bachelorgrad i medievitenskap og en mastergrad i retorikk og kommunikasjon fra Universitetet i Oslo. Han er bosatt i Osl…
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.
April Alexandersdottir er født i Oslo i 2004. Hun har gått på Nansenskolen i Lillehammer og Skrivekunstakademiet i Bergen. Ruby Baby er hennes første bok.
