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Karin Kinge Lindboe

かりん・きんげ・りんどぼー

Karin Kinge Lindboe

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1947-03-16 (Oslo)
Nationality
Norway
Languages
Norwegian
Residence History
Oslo

Career

Occupations
children's writer, schoolteacher
Active Years
1992-2018
Affiliations
Aschehoug
Nominations
Nominated for Stella (2004)

Education

University of Bergen
English
Country: Norway
undergraduate studies in English
teachers' college
Country: Norway
Attending teachers' college

Awards

Norwegian Critics Prize for Children's Literature
2011
Work: Etterpå varer så lenge
Category: children's literature
Organization: Norwegian Critics' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mormors hjerte

1992 children's literature

Debut book.

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Solkvinnens flamme

1998 historical fiction

First book in the Bronze Age trilogy.

Bronze Age

Gaupesommer

1999 historical fiction

Second book in the Bronze Age trilogy.

Bronze Age

Stella

2004 young adult fiction

Young adult fiction, nominated for Critics Prize.

youth

Etterpå varer så lenge

2011 children's literature

Deals with loss of friends to cancer. Won Critics Prize.

losscancer

Far og Sachsenhausen

2016 novel

Novel about father's imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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Style & Themes

Recurring Motifs
Bronze Agelossfamily

Legacy

Norwegian children's writer known for her Bronze Age trilogy and works dealing with loss, winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Children's Literature in 2011.

Trivia

  • Born in Oslo.
  • Debuted in 1992 and published nearly one book per year until 2018.