Named one of the 10 best young writers in Norway in 2015
EU Prize for literature 2015
Nominated for the P2 Listeners Prize 2015 and 2022
Bjørnson Scholarship 2014

Ida Hegazi Høyer (b. 1981) made her debut in 2012 with the novel Under the World and quickly became a leading voice in contemporary Norwegian literature. In 2015 she was named one of Norway’s 10 most promising young writers by Morgenbladet. In 2016, her novel Forgive Me won the EU Prize of Literature.

“Never irrelevant, never boring … one of our most interesting authors, regardless of age” – Dagbladet