
Maria Navarro Skaranger
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature 2020
Winner of the Oslo Prize 2018
Shortlisted for the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award 2015
Winner of the Debut Prize 2015
Maria Navarro Skaranger was born in 1994 in Oslo, and made her debut with All the Foreigners Have Their Curtains Closed in 2015, which was sold to Denmark even before its Norwegian publication. Hailed for its prose, a groundbreaking and highly stylized immigrant-influenced Oslo vernacular, the book was nominated for the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award and also won the Debut Prize 2015.
In 2018 she won much acclaim for her second novel Book of Grief, which was awarded the Oslo Prize. In 2019 she became the recipient of the Bjørnson Grant, an author’s grant given by the Booksellers’ Union, in cooperation with the Authors’ Union and the Bjørnson Festival.
A film adaptation of All the Foreigners Have Their Curtains Closed will premiere spring 2020.

- Book of Grief (The Story of Nils in the Woods)
- Bok om sorg (Fortellingen om Nils i skogen)
- Maria Navarro Skaranger
- Forlaget Oktober, 2018
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- AlbanianAlbas
- BulgarianPerseus Publishing House
- CroatianNaklada Ljevak
- FaroeseSprotin
- GeorgianAcademic Press
- MacedonianArs Lamina
- SerbianTreci

- All the Foreigners Have Their Curtains Closed
- Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner
- Maria Navarro Skaranger
- Forlaget Oktober, 2015
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- DanishGyldendal