Born 1963 · Norway
Brage 2020 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“I Suggest We Wake Up”
Beate Grimsrud · 57 when first published
Novel · 534 pages
AI-generated summary:A woman in the middle of a full life opens a letter telling her she is seriously ill. As she waits for answers and hope, her childhood below the Dovre mountains and the stories that sprang from her grandfather's gold pen return.
Brage 2010 · Shortlist
En dåre fri
Beate Grimsrud · 47 when first published
Novel · 509 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Eli, a writer, has lived with voices all her life: Espen, Erik and Emil since childhood, and later the stylish, decadent artist prince Eugen. They rule her days and sometimes drive her into psychosis.
Augustpriset 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Has Anyone Seen Me Anywhere Else?”
Beate Grimsrud · 44 when first published
Novel · 198 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A writer goes to a performance of acrobatics and slapstick, and on the way home meets one of her own characters, a confused string theorist, Sisyphus and Raskolnikov in a long, dreamlike night.
Brage 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Leak of Sleep”
Beate Grimsrud · 44 when first published
Novel · 197 pages
AI-generated summary:After a theatre show of acrobatics and quick-change acts, a writer begins a long night of strange events: she meets one of her own characters and a confused string theorist with startling ideas about the nature of reality.