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Vigdis Hjorth

1959 - Today

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Vigdis Hjorth (born 19 July 1959) is a Norwegian novelist best known for English translations of Long Live the Post Horn (2012) and Will and Testament. She was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Will and Testament, which had been recently translated into English. Her novel Is Mother Dead (2020), which was translated into English in 2022, was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Her 2023 novel Gjentakelsen will be published in English as Repetition in March 2026. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Vigdis Hjorth is the 5,762nd most popular writer (up from 5,817th in 2024), the 435th most popular biography from Norway (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Norwegian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vigdis Hjorth ranks 5,762 out of 7,302. Before her are Joel Chandler Harris, Penelope Lively, Claude McKay, Jacob Abbott, Park Wan-suh, and Teréz Karacs. After her are William Blum, Shaqe Çoba, Majgull Axelsson, Ibrahim Tuqan, Franz von Dingelstedt, and J. Slauerhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Vigdis Hjorth ranks 377. Before her are Talia Balsam, Waldemar Pawlak, Gregg Araki, Nobuo Kishi, Clint Howard, and Marcelo Ebrard. After her are Jim Kerr, Luis Fernando Suárez, Joe Elliott, Abdelhak Achik, Holger Hieronymus, and Richard Baawobr.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Vigdis Hjorth ranks 435 out of 1,039. Before her are Isak Saba (1875), Tora Berger (1981), Reidar Liaklev (1917), Brit Pettersen (1961), Dag Otto Lauritzen (1956), and Finn Kalvik (1947). After her are C. J. Hambro (1885), Knut Steen (1924), Babben Enger-Damon (1939), Emil Hegle Svendsen (1985), Alv Gjestvang (1937), and Sverre Hansen (1913).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Vigdis Hjorth ranks 68. Before her are Linn Ullmann (1966), Jens Bjørneboe (1920), Vera Henriksen (1927), Jørn Lier Horst (1970), Johan Falkberget (1879), and Inger Hagerup (1905). After her are André Bjerke (1918), Steve Sem-Sandberg (1958), Åsne Seierstad (1970), Kåre Holt (1916), Ingvar Ambjørnsen (1956), and Kjell Ola Dahl (1958).

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