Aschehoug Debutant Prize 2008

Tanum Womens Writers Prize 2010

Gøhril Gabrielsen (b. 1961) grew up in Finnmark, the northernmost country in Norway, but currently lives in Oslo. She is an educated nurse and copywriter.

Gabrielsen made her debut with the novel Unspeakable Events (2006) and has since then published four novels. Dizzying opportunities, no fear (2008), Vermin (2011), Yours, Always (2015) and Arrival (2017).

“Not often does one read an author whose language is so stylistically conscious and whose prose so through-and-through original.” From the jury statement of the 2016 Amalie Skram Prize