Winner of the Hunger Prize 2025
Winner of the Brage Prize 2024
Winner of the Oktober Prize 2024
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023
Winner of the Havmann Prize 2019

Kathrine Nedrejord (b.1987) is an author of both adult fiction, books for children/YA and theatre plays. She made her debut in 2010 with the novel Transit, which received glowing reviews. In 2019 her acclaimed novel Transformation was awarded the Havmann Prize. Its follow-up, Criminal and Punishment, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023.

Her books for children and young adults have earned several nominations for prestigious literary awards, among them the IBBY Honor list and two-time nominated for the Ministry of Culture’s Literary Prize. The German edition of the YA Sara’s Secret was awarded Book of the Month. Nedrejord was recently the house dramatist at the National Theatre in Oslo. She lives in France.

“Kathrine Nedrejord is an author who never shies away, and there is a steadfastness, a fearlessness, and an intellectual power in Nedrejord that can bring to mind the novels of Dag Solstad. Kathrine Nedrejord crushes conventions in her writing, and with THE SAMI PROBLEM she has written a novel that could stand as a modern classic.”
From the Oktober Prize jury statement