Kristin Valla (born 22 March 1975 in Mo i Rana) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. She now lives in Oslo. Her debut novel, Muskat, has been translated to several languages, including English in 2002.
Life and work
Kristin Valla was born and brought up in Mo i Rana outside Finneidfjord in Nordland. She is a trained journalist from the University of Oslo and has studied French and Spanish at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen. She has also studied Latin American studies at the University of Bergen. In the autumn of 1997, she moved to Venezuela, where she lived for over a year and, among other things, studied Spanish grammar and essay writing in Mérida.
Valla has worked as a journalist in Dagbladet Magasinet, as editor-in-chief in the fashion magazine Costume and as editor for the cultural magazine Aftenposten K.
In 2000, she made her debut as an author with the novel Muskat (Nutmeg) which turned out to be very successful. The novel has been translated into several languages, including English, German and Japanese. Kristin's third novel Ut av det blå (Out of the Blue) was published in 2019. In the same year, it was nominated for the Bokhandlerprisen (Norwegian Booksellers' Prize). In 2022 it was published in Germany as Das Haus über dem Fjord.
Bibliography
- Muskat (Nutmeg) (2000)
- Turister (Tourists) (2003)
- Verdens fineste: 55 romantiske reisemål (The world's finest: 55 romantic destinations) (2004)
- Skuddene i Tbilisi (The shots at Tbilisi) (2006)
- Ut av det blå (Out of the Blue) (2019)
References
- "Valla, Kristin". Archived from the original on 2008-03-05. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
- "Valla, Kristin Dagbladet :litteratur". Archived from the original on 2002-02-28. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
- "NRK.no - Forfattere".
- "Valla, Kristin". Alex Författarlexikon (Alex encyclopedia of authors). Retrieved 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- "Homepage of Kristin Valla". Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- Inger, Bentzrud (8 August 2019). "Familiedrama med nifs aktualitet". Dagbladet. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
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