Hagerup, Hilde
Hilde Hagerup made her debut in 1998 with a novel for young readers, BØLGEBITER. Enthusiastically received by the critics, the book quickly ran through several reprintings and was awarded the Norwegian Ministry of Culture's prize for the best children's and young adults book of the year. Hilde Hagerup has also written two other novels, HØYEST ELSKET og LØVETANNSANG; all her books have been sold to several countries.
In Thailand, 12,000 copies of BØLGEBITER were distributed free of charge to the nation's secondary schools. Her book LØVETANNSANG won the 2002 Norwegian Literary Critics' Prize for best children's book of the year. Last year she was represented in a short story collection with two other young female authors, Ragnfrid Trohaug and Charlotte Glaser Munch.
