Marianne Kaurin (b. 1974) has earned several literary awards for her books for children and young adults. Her middle grade novel Our Own Little Paradise is awarded one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis 2021, also awarded the German LUCHS of the Month Prize by Radio Bremen and Die Zeit, and Book of the Month by Deutsche Akademie Für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. The audio edition is on the German radio channel h2 Best Book of the Year list. Kaurin’s debut, the young adult novel Almost Autumn, received two of the top youth literature prizes in her home country of Norway, and the English translation won the American literary prize The 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award. Marianne Kaurin studied creative writing and literature at the Norwegian Children’s Book Institute in Oslo. She lives just outside of Oslo with her family, and is an editor for children’s books.