Sarita Skagnes

Sarita Skagnes, (nee Satwant Kaur; born 1969) is a Norwegian author.

Biography Satwant Kaur was born in 1969, in Punjab, India, and grew up in India. As the third, and unwanted, girl, she was exchanged for a male cousin and instead grew up as a servant girl for another family. Her parents and siblings moved to Norway. When the father returned to India, Skagnes' grandmother pleaded with him to take Sarita to Norway as well. Sarita came to Norway at the age of sixteen, and has since broken all contact with her birth family.

Skagnes was on 9 July 2013 the presenter for Sommar i P1 at Sveriges Radio where she talked about the struggle to find her identity and women's rights.