About Marianne Kaurin
Born 1974. Marianne Kaurin is a Norwegian novelist and writer.
Marianne Kaurin (born 18 May 1974) is a Norwegian writer of young adult fiction.
Her debut novel was Nærmere høst (2012). The book was about the holocaust in Norway from the perspective of a 15-year-old girl, and earned her a Sydney Taylor Book Award honorable mention and the . She followed with Deres majestet (2016), Syden (2018)—which won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis—and Trivselslederen (2023).
Outside of writing, she is an editor in the publishing house Cappelen Damm.
She hails from Tønsberg, but resides at Nesodden.
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Norwegian novelist
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Marianne Kaurin was born on 18 May 1974.
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