Norway

Rune Christiansen

Rune Christiansen was born in 1963 and made his literary debut in 1986 with Where the Train leaves the Sea. Since then he has written six critically acclaimed novels. In 1996 he was awarded the Halldis…...

Kjell Askildsen

Kjell Askildsen (b. 1929) is considered a master of short stories. He entered the literary scene in 1953 with the collection of short stories From Now on I'll Take You All the Way Home, which received…...

Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø was born in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of seven internationally acclaimed crime novels featuring Detective Harry Hole. Translated into more than thirty languages and awarded a wide…...

Gaute Heivoll

Gaute Heivoll (b. 1978) studied creative writing at Boe from 2001-2, and has studied law at the University of Oslo and psychology at the University of Bergen. He has also worked as a teacher. Heivoll has…...

Cathrine Grøndahl

Cathrine Grøndahl was born in Norway in 1969 and published her first book of poems in 1994; it won the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Prize. She has since published three more volumes of poems. She has…...

Levi Henriksen

Levi Henriksen (b.1964) is an author, journalist and columnist. In 2004 he received the Booksellers' Prize for Snow will Fall on Fallen Snow, which won the hearts of the readers and became a bestseller…...

Per Petterson

Per Petterson (b. 1952) worked for several years as an unskilled laborer, bookseller, writer, and translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection Aske i munnen, sand…...

Jon Fosse

Novelist, poet and playwright Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and now resides in Bergen. The author of some thirty books and twenty-five plays that have been translated into over…...

Johan Harstad

Johan Harstad was born in 1979 and debuted in 2001 with a collection of short stories entitled From Here on You Just Get Older. In 2002 he published Ambulance, a second collection of short stories. His…...

Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen was born in Oslo in 1953. Since his début in 1976 he has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came…...

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