Bråtveit, Inger

Winner of the Bjørnson Grant 2009

Inger Bråtveit was born in 1978 in Suldal, western Norway. She has been coeditor of the influential literary magazine Vagant, is now working as a translator for The Norwegian Bible Society’s project “Bible 2010”, a complete revision of the Nynorsk and Bokmål translations of the Bible.

Since 2007 Bråtveit has been working with the Swedish poet Cecilia Hansson on the LOVE PROJECT, a dialogical-poetical examination of love and sexuality.

Her first novel, MOUTH AGAINST A FROZEN FJORD, won the Nynorsk literary award in 2003. Her second novel SISS AND UNN was nominated for the Critics' Prize 2008.