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Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann (born 9 August 1966) is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels. Early life. Ullmann was born in Oslo, Norway to Norwegian actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and Swedish director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman.
Linn Ullmann, one of the most distinct voices in Scandinavian literature, is the author of six international bestselling novels published in more than twenty countries throughout Europe and the US. She is the recipient of several awards, among them Amalie Skram-prisen for fiction and Gullpennen for her journalistic work.
Linn Ullmann is the author of six best-selling novels published in more than twenty countries.
Linn Ullmann is the daughter of actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman. She is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature.
Jan 10, 2019 · L ate one November evening in her Oslo apartment, the Norwegian novelist Linn Ullmann told me a terrific story. We had been speaking for four days — in the apartment; in her writing studio; in ...
Jan 17, 2019 · UNQUIET By Linn Ullmann Translated by Thilo Reinhard 392 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $25.95. Last year marked both the 80th birthday of the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann and the centenary of Ingmar ...
May 23, 2023 · Ullmann says she was “painfully connected” to Ingmar Bergman. They collaborated on “Persona,” “Cries and Whispers” and “Scenes From a Marriage” and shared a child, writer Linn Ullmann.
Sep 6, 2020 · The narrator in Linn Ullmann’s Unquiet is in her middle age when she first receives a photograph of her parents together. A gift from her son, who found it on the internet, her mother and father “are sitting side by side, they are no longer lovers, but friends, colleagues”. Her son gave it to her “because they looked so happy and free and sort of goofy.
Six years after her outstanding novel De urolige (2015), Linn Ullmann has published another impressive work: Jente, 1983 (‘Girl, 1983’, not translated into English). This time, too, Ullmann has written a story that is heartbreaking and beautiful in its human tenderness. Ullmann can now be said to be an author of indisputable importance.
I’ve long admired Linn Ullmann’s fiction, and Unquiet is her masterpiece. Based on her upbringing as the child of two great artists, it is the portrait of complex loves; of a youth divided and inspired by diametrically opposed creative influences; and of the ravages of age. Calm yet fierce, exquisitely rendered, this novel imprints itself indelibly―as if you, too, had been there.
