Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian / Danish author.
Tiina Nunnally is an American author and translator.
Karin Fossum is a Norwegian author of crime fiction, often referred to as the "Norwegian queen of crime".
Bjørn Richard Sundquist is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles.
Imitation of Life (1959) is an American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and dealt with issues of race, class and gender. Imitation of Life is the second film adaptation of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same title.
Calling Out For You is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum. It features her series’ protagonist Inspector Sejer and his investigation into the vicious murder of an Indian bride recently moved to Norway to be with her husband.
He Who Fears the Wolf is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, the third in the Inspector Konrad Sejer series.
When the Devil Holds the Candle is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, fourth in the Inspector Konrad Sejer series. In 2007, upon its publication in the US, the novel won the Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel.
Black Seconds is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, the sixth in the Inspector Konrad Sejer series. The novel won Sweden's Martin Beck Award in 2002. An English-language edition translated by Charlotte Barslund was published in 2008.
Britt Karin Larsen is a Norwegian poet, author and government scholar. Larsen debuted as a poet in 1978 with 5 mg blues og andre dikt, and has published many poetry collections and novels since. She is best known for her novel trilogy about Norwegian and Swedish Travellers, De som ser etter tegn (1997), De usynliges by (1998) and Sangen om løpende hester (1999). The trilogy has been called a literary monument for Romany people in Norway. Larsen was given the Norsk PEN's highest freedom prize, the Ossietzky-prisen, in 2000.
The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. It received the Gold Dagger Award in 1992.
Marita Fossum is a Norwegian writer. Her literary debut was the novel Verden utenfor (2002). She was awarded the Brage Prize in 2005 for the novel Forestill deg.
Karin Bang was a Norwegian poet, novelist, children's writer and crime fiction writer.
Christian Skolmen is a Norwegian film, stage, television and voice actor who has been part of the Nationaltheatret since 1995, where he has appeared in The Pretenders (Ibsen), the Three Musketeers (Dumas) and Bakkantinnene (Euripides). He has also performed at the Torshovteatret in Ondskapen (Guillou), and the Trøndelag Teater in Peer Gynt (Ibsen).
Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or the Nordic countries. Nordic noir often employs plain language, avoiding metaphor, and is typically set in bleak landscapes. This results in a dark and morally complex mood, in which a tension is depicted between the apparently still and bland social surface and the patterns of murder, misogyny, rape, and racism the genre depicts as lying underneath. It contrasts with the whodunit style such as the English country house murder mystery.
The Caller is a crime fiction novel by Norwegian crime fiction author Karin Fossum, the tenth in the Inspector Konrad Sejer series, released 2009 by Random House, and published in English in 2011.
Ida Jessen is a Danish author and translator who writes in both Danish and Norwegian. Jessen was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and has won several awards for her work. She is a member of the Danish Academy and a recipient of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation.
Karin Gundersen was a Norwegian literary scholar and translator.
Kari Dickson is a British translator who specializes in translating works of Norwegian literature into English. She grew up in Edinburgh but spent her summers in Norway with maternal grandparents who did not speak English. She graduated in Scandinavian Studies at UCL, and worked in the theatre for some time. She did literal translations of two Ibsen plays, which drove her interest in literary translation, eventually leading to an MA degree in translation from the University of Surrey.
