Erika Fatland

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Erika Fatland
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Erika Fatland in 2019
Born1983 (age 4041)
Alma mater University of Oslo
University of Copenhagen
OccupationWriter
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]

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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 studied at the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen.[ citation needed ]

Fatland is best known for her travel writing and has written several books: 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. The book was reviewed by Financial Times and Kirkus Reviews . [2] [3]

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. [4] The book was reviewed by The Washington Post . [5]

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. [6]

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. [7]

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  5. 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.
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