Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, (4 April 1914 -3 March 1996) known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and one of the most distinctive contemporary writers in English. Born in Toronto in 1950, she studied Classics at the University of To…
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 …
Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i mo…
Helene Uri is a Norwegian linguist, novelist, and children's writer. She has published a number of novels, children's books and young adult novels, as well as nonfiction books.
Hilde Hagerup is a Norwegian novelist and author of children's literature. She is the daughter of Klaus Hagerup. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 2002 for Løvetanns…
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…
Dag Johan Haugerud er en norsk forfatter, filmskaper og bibliotekar. Han har bibliotekarutdannelse fra Høgskolen i Oslo mellomfag i filmvitenskap fra Stockholm Universitet, teatervitenskap fra Univers…
Nasce a Roma e si laurea in Filosofia all'Università degli studi di Milano con Paolo Valore (con una tesi riguardo agli argomenti ontologici a sostegno dell'esistenza di Dio). Lavora come traduttore a…
Kjersti Anfinnsen, født i 1975, bor i Oslo. Hun har gått på Forfatterstudiet i Tromsø og på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland. I 2012 debuterte hun med romanen Det var grønt. Romanen De siste kjærtegn …
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Marte Michelet (f. 1975) er journalist og forfatter. For boka Den største forbrytelsen (Gyldendal, 2014) fikk hun Brageprisen, mens Hva visste hjemmefronten? (Gyldendal, 2018) ga henne Bokhandelens sa…
Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin r…
Leander Djønne (f. 1981) er forfattar, biletkunstnar, lærar og gardbrukar frå Hardanger. Han debuterte med Oskespiralen i 2022, ein debut som blei hylla av kritikarane og som vann Lytternes romanpris …
Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physi…
Nikolai Torgersen (f. 1990, Oslo) er billedkunstner og jobber med maling, tegning og skulptur. Han debuterte på Høstutstillingen i 2012 og har siden holdt en rekke utstillinger. Gater jeg har levd er …
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.
Isalill Kolpus (født 1990) er en samisk-norsk komiker. Hun er utdannet på Universitetet i Oslo og har arbeidet som lærer. I 2026 debuterer hun som forfatter med Hvem brente John Savio?, en original de…
