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Vigdis Hjorth (born 19 July 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She was long listed for the National Book Award in 2021. [1] Life. She grew up in Oslo, and studied philosophy, literature and political science.
Sep 30, 2019 · The country’s most flagrant transgressor of the code of plausible disclaimability is Vigdis Hjorth, whose prickly, persuasive novel “ Will and Testament ” came out in Norway in 2016, and has just...
Apr 4, 2023 · The Norwegian author talks about her novel Is Mother Dead, which explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and the importance of reading fiction in translation. She also shares her writing process, her collaboration with translator Charlotte Barslund, and her literary influences.
Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science. In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award.
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Vigdis Hjorth is a prize-winning, and best-selling, author and essayist. Hjorth has written over 20 works of fiction, including books for children. Will and Testament was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. Hjorth lives in Oslo.
So opens Vigids Hjorth’s ground-breaking novel from 2001, which melds the yearning, doomed potency of Annie Ernaux’s A Simple Passion with the scale and force of Anna Karenina. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love?
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Oct 27, 2022 · Vigdis Hjorth, whose lacerating new novel is uncompromisingly titled Is Mother Dead, makes a similar observation: “the mother is a mirror in which the daughter sees her future self and the...
