Former prize winners include Dag Solstad, Per Petterson, Tove Nilsen and Jon Michelet.

In their statement, the jury declares:

“Kriznik’s novels demonstrate a quiet, but intense empathy with other people. She provides us with convincing views of people who experience dramatic moments in the midst of their daily lives, ordinary people suddenly forced to realize that living also means losing. The stories are very well narrated, in her unaffected prose, Kriznik writes remarkably well, moving the reader with her depictions of human relationships.”

Kriznik’s first novel, APPLAUSE (2002), earned her the Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize. It has been translated into Swedish. Her second novel, GONE ONE WINTER, was nominated for the Young Adult Critics’ Prize and the P2-listeners’ Best Novel Prize.