Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven was born in Hardanger, Norway, where she grew up on a small farm. She debuted as an author with a poetry collection in 2005. Since then she has written seventeen books, including children's books, several poetry collections, two plays, and the prize-winning, internationally bestselling novel Everything Is Mine, the first in her Clara series. Her work has been translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Polish. Among other prizes, Ruth has won both the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the poetry collections Urd and Sickle. For more information, visit www.ruthlillegraven.no.