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.