Hanne Ørstavik (born 28 November 1969) is a Norwegian writer. She was born in

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province in the far north of Norway, and moved to

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at the age of 16. With the publication of the novel ''Hakk'' (''Cut'') in 1994, Ørstavik embarked her writing career. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of ''Kjærlighet'' (''Love''), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a poll published by ''

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''. Since then she has written several novels and received a number of literary prizes. In 2002, she was awarded the

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for her literary works, and in 2004, the

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for the novel ''Presten''. Ørstavik’s books have been translated into 15 languages.

Translations in English

In 2014 Peirene Press published the first ever English translation of one of her novels - The Blue Room - as part of their Coming of Age series. In 2018

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published ''Kjærlighet'' (1997) as ''Love'', translated by Martin Aiken. Her first novel to be published in the United States, ''Love'' was shortlisted for the

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s in the category Translated Literature and won the 2019

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. ''Love'' was published in the UK by

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in 2019. Martin Aiken also translated Ørstavik's 2004 novel ''Presten'', which was subsequently published by

in 2021 as ''The Pastor''. ''Preston'' won the 2004

for adult fiction.

Bibliography

* 1994: ''Hakk'' (novel) * 1995: ''Entropi'' (novel) * 1997: ''Kjærlighet'' (novel) **''Love'', translated by Martin Aitken (

, USA, 2018) , (

, UK, 2019) * 1999: ''Like sant som jeg er virkelig'' (novel) ** ''The Blue Room'', translated by Deborah Dawkin (

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, 2014), * 2000: ''Tiden det tar'' (novel) * 2002: ''Uke 43'' (novel) * 2004: ''Presten'' (novel) **''The Pastor'', translated by Martin Aitken (

, USA, 2021) * 2006: ''Kallet - romanen'' (novel) * 2007: ''I morgen skal det være åpent for alle'' (text) * 2008: ''Der alt er klart'' (text and images, in collaboration with the French artist Pierre Duba) * 2009: ''48 rue Defacqz'' (novel) * 2011: ''Hyenene'' (novel) * 2013: ''Det finnes en stor åpen plass i Bordeaux'' (novel) * 2014: ''På terrassen i mørket'' (novel) * 2020: ''Ti amo'' (novel) **''Ti Amo'', translated by Martin Aitken (

, USA, 2022)

Awards

* :no:Tanums kvinnestipend 1998 *

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Listener's Prize 1999, for ''Like sant som jeg er virkelig'' * Sult Prize 1999 * :no:Havmannprisen 2000, for ''Tiden det tar'' * Oktober Prize 2000 *

2002 * Amalie Skram Prize 2002 * Klassekampen's Literary Award 2004, for ''Presten'' *

2004, for ''Presten'' *

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2007 *

2019, for ''Love'' (trans. Martin Aitken)

References

External links

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