Frode Grytten

1960 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: postmodernism

genre: novel, crime novel, short story, children's and youth literature

country of citizenship: Norway

languages spoken, written or signed: Norwegian, Nynorsk

occupation: writer, journalist, children's writer, poet

award received: Brage Award for Fiction, The Norwegian Language Council's Språkpris, Riverton Prize, Nynorsk Literature Prize, Samlagsprisen, Sigmund Skard Fellowship

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian writer and journalist. Born 11 December 1960 in Bergen and a native of Odda, he is the author of the Brage Prize-winning novel Bikubesong ("Song of the Beehive") as well as other short stories and poems. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, French, English, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese. His journalism includes work for the local newspaper Bergens Tidende as well as the Oslo-based Dagbladet. Source: Wikipedia (en)