Erika Fatland

Erika Fatland
Erika Fatland in 2019
Born	1983 (age 41–42) Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway
Alma mater	University of Oslo University of Copenhagen
Occupation	Writer
Website	www.erikafatland.com

Erika Fatland (born 1983) is a Norwegian anthropologist, critic and writer. Her authorship focuses on travel writing and history. Fatland is the recipient of several awards for her writing and has been translated to twenty languages. ^[1]

Fatland currently has a ten-year artist’s stipend from the Norwegian Government. She has written seven books.

Early life and career

Fatland was born in Haugesund, Norway, in 1983, and read for an MPhil in anthropology at the University of Oslo. ^[2]

Her first travel book, Sovietistan, published in 2015, was an account of her travels through five post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been translated into 12 languages. ^{[3] [4]}

This was followed by The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage, an account of her travels around Russia's border, from North Korea to Norway. Both books have been translated into English by Kari Dickson, and both received critical acclaim from reviewers in the US and UK. ^[5] The book was reviewed by The Washington Post . ^[6]

She wrote two earlier books: The Village of Angels (2011) about the Beslan massacre and The Year Without a Summer about the Utoya massacre. She has also written the children's book The Parent War. ^[7]

She has received numerous awards, among them the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for Nonfiction and the Wesselprisen (2016). She speaks eight languages including Norwegian, English, French, Russian, German, Italian, and Spanish. She lives in Oslo. ^[8]

Bibliography

• The Village of Angels (2011)
• The Year Without a Summer (2012)
• Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (2020) ^{[9] [10]}
• The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage (2021)
• High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China (2023)
• Sjøfareren - en reise gjennom Portugals tapte imperium (The seafarer: A travel through Portugals lost empire) (2024) ^[11]

References

1. "Norli Bokhandel". www.norli.no. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
2. Hovdenakk, Sindre (2024-11-13), "Erika Fatland", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian), retrieved 2024-11-23
3. "SOVIETISTAN | Kirkus Reviews".
4. Foy, Henry (6 September 2019). "Sovietistan by Erika Fatland — mesmerising trip across central Asia". Financial Times.
5. "Erika Fatland".
6. Michael Dirda (2021-03-10). "'The Border' asks: What is life like when you live next door to a bully nation?". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.
7. "Books From Norway". Books From Norway. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
8. "Erika Fatland « Cove Park".
9. "Nonfiction Book Review: Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland, trans. From the Norwegian by Kari Dickson. Pegasus, $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-64313-326-3". 7 January 2020.
10. "Review: 'Sovietistan,' by Erika Fatland". Star Tribune .
11. "Sjøfareren - en reise gjennom Portugals tapte imperium". www.ark.no. Retrieved 2025-01-27.