Inger Bråtveit

Inger Bråtveit (b.1978) is one of Norway’s most exciting younger authors and the recipient of several awards and grants, including the New Norwegian Literature Prize and the Bjørnson Scholarship. She debuted as an author in 2002 with the novel Mouth towards a Frozen Fjord. Her second novel, Siss and Unn, was nominated for the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 2008.

After a poetry collaboration with notable Swedish author Cecilia Hansson, The Love Project, Bråtveit published her third novel Alice A4 in 2015, nominated for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize. Her latest novel, The Art of Swimming, has been applauded for its wise and beautiful prose.