Born 1969 · Norway
National Book Award 2018 · Finalist
Kjærlighet
Hanne Ørstavik · 28 when first published
Novel · 174 pages · Family
Translated by Martin Aitken
AI-generated summary:The day before her son turns nine, a mother newly moved to a small town in the north of Norway heads for the library while the boy goes out alone into the winter evening to sell raffle tickets.
Brage 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“On the Terrace in the Dark”
Hanne Ørstavik · 45 when first published
Novel · 220 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:After breaking up with Jostein, the social anthropologist Paula goes to southern Spain and works as an escort, spending her evenings on the dark terrace of a university guest house above Málaga.
Brage 2004 · Winner
Presten
Hanne Ørstavik · 35 when first published
Novel · 270 pages
AI-generated summary:Liv, thirty-five, is the pastor of a small town in Finnmark, where she once researched the Sami uprising of 1852; one Sunday after mass she is called out because a young local girl has hanged herself.