Anne Karin Thorhus (born 23 June 1945), known under the

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Kim Småge, is a Norwegian

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, crime fiction writer, writer of short stories, and children's writer. Her literary breakthrough came in 1983 with the crime thriller ''Nattdykk'' (Night diving), a book which earned her the

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. Her novels have not been published in English yet.

Background

Anne Karin Thorhus was born in

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, by parents Rune Sanfrid Thorhus and Hjørdis Wedø. She is married to playwright Edvard Normann Rønning. She is

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from the

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. She was the first female

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instructor of the Norwegian Diving Federation (Norwegian: Norsk Dykkerforbund).

Literary career

Kim Småge's first two crime novels, ''Nattdykk'' (1983) and ''Origo'' (1984) feature the character "Hilke", a female diver, as the

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. She followed up with the thrillers ''Kainan'' (1986) and ''Lex Love'' (1991). She also wrote two youth's novels, ''Figurene'' in 1986, and ''Interrail'' in 1988. ''Kvinnens lange arm'' (1992) is a collection of crime

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

. The crime novels ''Sub Rosa'' (1993), ''En kjernesunn død'' (1995), ''Containerkvinnen'' (1997), ''Solefall'' (2002) and ''Dobbeltmann'' (2004) all feature the

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"Anne-kin Halvorsen" as main character. With her novel ''Nattdykk'' Småge was the first woman in what has been called "a new female wave in

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". Småge was board member of the

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from 1987 to 1991, and again from 2002 to 2004. She served as president of the society ''Skandinaviske Kriminelle Selskap'' in 2001. She was awarded the

in 1984, and the

Glass Key award The Glass Key award ( sv, Glasnyckeln, da, Glasnøglen, no, Glassnøkkelen, fi, Lasiavain-palkinto, is, Glerlykillinn) is a literature award given annually to a crime novel by an author from the Nordic countries. The award, named after the nove ...

(for best Scandinavian crime novel) for ''Sub Rosa'' in 1993. She has received the ''Palle Rosenkrantz Prize'' for best novel translated into

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(for ''En kernesund død'').

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smage, Kim 1945 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian thriller writers Norwegian crime fiction writers Norwegian women novelists 21st-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian women writers Women thriller writers Norwegian children's writers Norwegian women short story writers 20th-century Norwegian short story writers People from Trondheim