On Morgenbladet’s decennial 10 Best Younger Writers list 2025
Shortlisted for the EU Prize of Literature 2025
Nominated for the Brage Prize 2018
Nominated for the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize 2018 & 2020
Aschehoug Debut Grant 2014
Winner of the Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Prize 2014

Maria Kjos Fonn (b. 1990) is one of the most powerful young literary voices in Norway. Her first novel Kinderwhore was nominated for the Norwegian Book Prize (the Brage Prize). Her first children’s book, Memoria, was published in 2022.

In 2025, Kjos Fonn was named one Norway’s 10 best younger writers, in a prestigious list published every ten years in a cooperation between the cultural weekly Morgenbladet and Lillehammer Literary Festival. The list showcases 10 writers under 35 who are considered the most promising literary talents of their generation.

Kjos Fonn is also a frequent op-ed writer on issues like politics, feminism and society. She lives in Oslo.