Kim Leine

1961 -

country of citizenship: Norway, Denmark

languages spoken, written or signed: Danish, Norwegian

occupation: nurse, writer, novelist, translator

award received: Nordic Council Literature Prize, De Gyldne Laurbær, Weekendavisen Book Award, Crown Prince Couple's Awards, Norwegian P2 listener's literature award

Kim Leine Rasmussen (b. 28 August 1961 in Seljord, Telemark) is a Danish-Norwegian author who writes about Greenland. His books have been translated into twenty languages and won several prestigious literary prizes. His novel The Prophets of Eternal Fjord won six literature prizes in 2012 and 2013. Source: Wikipedia (en)