Named one of the 10 best young writers in Norway in 2015

EU Prize for literature 2015

Bjørnson Scholarship 2014

Nominated for the P2 Listeners Book Award 2015

Ida Hegazi Høyer (b. 1981) made her literary debut in 2012 With the novel Underneath the World. Since then, she has written six novels: Out (2013), Forgive Me (2014), Black Beach (2015), Stories of Solace (2016), One|The Sketch and One|The Child.

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