Mona Lyngar

Mona Lyngar (6 January 1944 – 6 January 2023) was a Norwegian novelist and crime fiction writer.

Literary career Lyngar made her literary debut in 1966, with a prize-winning contribution to the anthology Gruppe 66, and the novel Ved stupet. The short stories in her collection Ballonger (1967) have a grotesque, absurd or surrealistic nature. In 1970 she published the satirical novel Hull, which depicts viewpoints from various inhabitants of a revenue house. In the novel Ved stupet from 1972 the characters appear like game pieces. She issued the novel Historien om frøken Raubal in 1975, and the short story collection Fra den ene til den andre in 1976. These include the short story collection Bare en advarsel from 1982, and the novel Gris from 1985.

After passing examen artium in 1963, Lyngar studied sociology at the University of Oslo from 1964 to 1966. From 1968 to 1970 she studied theatre in London and Edinburgh.

Lyngar died on 6 January 2023, at the age of 79.