Marit Eikemo

Marit Eikemo (born 6 April 1971) is a Norwegian essayist, novelist, journalist and magazine editor. Her awards include the Nynorsk Literature Prize and the Amalie Skram Prize.

Career Eikemo was born in Odda Municipality on 6 April 1971. She was awarded the Nynorsk Literature Prize for the novel Samtale ventar in 2011. In 2017 she was awarded the Amalie Skram Prize, when the jury compared her to Skram in the way she was searching for truth and aiming to understand but not judge. She received in 2019.