In their statement, the jury says:

"Inger Bråtveit’s writing contains a voice wise from experience that safely covers the prose, always questioning in order to open up the world of thoughts and movement of action, never insisting and explaining in a way which would push her poetically powerful language back to normal prose. Bråtveit has a careful and poetic pen which never turns brittle."

Earlier winners of the grant include Karl Ove Knausgård, Johan Harstad, Carl Frode Tiller and Gunnhild Øyehaug.

Inger Bråtveit was hailed by critics as one of the most innovative and exciting writers in Norway and Scandinavia when her second novel SISS AND UNN was published in 2008. The book was also nominated for the Critics' Prize.