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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References
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
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