Inger Bråtveit (born 3 October 1978) is a Norwegian novelist and

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

. Bråtveit was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

, and grew up in

Suldal Suldal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the northeast corner of Rogaland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Ryfylke. Since 1965, the administrative centre of ...

. She made her literary debut in 2001 with the novel ''Munn mot ein frosen fjord''. For this novel she was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize in 2002. Her second novel was ''Siss og Unn'' from 2008, where the central characters are taken from

Tarjei Vesaas Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II. Vesaas' work is c ...

' novel '' The Ice Palace''. The poetry collection ''Loveprosjekt'' from 2009 was a collaboration with the Swedish poet Cecilia Hansson. Her first children's book is ''Kven er snillast av mor og far?'' from 2012. She was awarded ''Bjørnsonstipendet'' in 2009, and ''Suldal Mållags Målpris'' in 2010.

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1978 births Living people Writers from Bergen People from Suldal 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian children's writers 21st-century Norwegian poets Norwegian women poets Norwegian women novelists Norwegian women children's writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers {{Norway-novelist-stub