Toril Brekke

Toril Brekke grew up in artistic circles in Oslo as the daughter of the Norwegian poet Paal Brekke. She trained as a typographer and worked as a teacher and journalist before beginning to write novels, short stories, and books for children and young adults in 1976. From 1987 to 1991, she chaired the Norwegian Authors’ Union, and in the 1990s she served on the committee for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize. She received the Riksmål Society’s Literature Prize in 2000 and the Amalie Skram Prize in 2004.