Toril Brekke

Toril Brekke (born 24 June 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, children's writer, biographer, translator and literary critic.

Early and personal life Brekke was born in Oslo as a daughter of the poet Paal Brekke and painter Bjørg Rasmussen. She was married to Martin Indregard from 1972 to 1982, and their son Kjetil Indregard is also a writer. She was married to professor Jon Bing from 1988 to 1998. She worked at a bread factory, and later as a typographer, and has been a full-time writer since 1982. She was a member of the Workers' Communist Party during the early 1970s, but later renounced communism.

Brekke received the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1999. She was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 2000. She was awarded the Amalie Skram Prize in 2004.

She was leader of Nordnorsk Forfatterlag from 1979 to 1980, of the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1987 to 1991 and of the Norwegian branch of International PEN from 1992 to 1997. She was a board member for the National Theatre from 1990 to 1992.