Janneken Øverland (born 22 August 1946) is a Norwegian editor, biographer and publishing house executive. She was born in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

. She edited the literary magazine '' Vinduet'' from 1980 to 1984. She was co-editor of the three-volume ''Norsk kvinnelitteraturhistorie'' (1988-1990), and has written a biography on Cora Sandel. From 1997 until her retirement in 2013 she was editorial manager for the publishing house

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norway, Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Denmark, Dan ...

, responsible for translated literature.

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