Maria Navarro Skaranger (born 1994) is a Norwegian writer.

Biography

Skaranger was born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

and studied at the Academy of Creative Writing in

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

and at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

Books

She has published two books:Maria Navarro Skaranger
at European Union Prize for Literature *''All the Foreigners Have Closed Curtains'' (2015), which won the First Novel Prize and has been made into a film *''Book of Grief (The Story of Nils in the Woods)'' which won the Oslo Prize and the

EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ...

References

1994 births Living people Norwegian people of Chilean descent Writers from Oslo Norwegian novelists {{Norway-writer-stub