Ruth Lillegraven was born in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then, she has written seventeen books, including children’s books, several poetry collections, two plays, and the prize-winning, internationally bestselling “Clara” trilogy. Among other prizes, Ruth has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle.
Read more on the author’s homepage: www.ruthlillegraven.no
The second book in Ruth Lillegraven’s thrilling “Clara”-series, “Blood Ties” (“Dunkler Abgrund”, Ullstein Verlag, tr. Günther Frauenlob) is hitting it out of the park in Germany since launching a couple of months ago!
We’re excited to be attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April to discuss our children’s authors, which include Jon Fosse, Ruth Lillegraven, and Ole Kristian Løyning.
Everything Is Mine by Ruh Lillegraven nominated for The Petrona Award 2022
8 sales for Everything is Mine – now sold to Sweden
“Another gripping pageturner, AV MITT BLOD presents a vulnerable Clara suffering a severe backlash.
Like ALT ER MITT, this book will leave readers yearning for a sequel and more of Ruth Lillegraven’s crystalline prose”, says Marion Wichmann in List /Ullstein Verlage.
Av mitt blod (Blood Ties) is by now sold for publication in English, Danish, German, Italian and Polish, and the Polish edition will be published already mid -September 2021.
