Selma Lønning Aarø (born 13 July 1972) is a Norwegian novelist, humorist, children's writer and columnist. She made her literary debut in 1995 with the novel ''Den endelige historien'', about the erotic adventures of a young woman. The novel won a prize for best debut novel from the publishing house

J.W. Cappelens Forlag J.W. Cappelens Forlag, usually referred to as Cappelen, was one of the oldest publishing houses of Norway. J.W. Cappelens Forlag was founded in 1829 by Jørgen Wright Cappelen, of the distinguished Cappelen family. Torger Baardseth was the dire ...

. Later novels are ''Spekulum'' from 1996, and ''Bebudelse'' from 1999. The novel ''Vill ni åka mera?'' from 2003 was nominated for the Brage Prize. She published the humour book ''Scener fra et ekteskap'' in 2003, and ''Stormfulle høyder'' in 2005. She wrote the ''Vekevis'' in 2010, an easy-to-read novel for adults. In 2012 she issued the children's book ''Vampyrlus!'', and in 2016 the novel ''Hennes løgnaktige ytre''. She has edited three editions of the debutant anthology series ''Signaler'', jointly with Nils-Øivind Haagensen. Aarø has been a newspaper columnist for several years, for ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newspa ...

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Klassekampen ''Klassekampen'' ( en, The Class Struggle) is a Norwegian daily newspaper. It describes itself as "the newspaper of the Left." The paper's net circulation is 34,000 (2021), and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). ...

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