Guri Vesaas


Guri Vesaas is a Norwegian writer and translator of children's books, and former editor at the publishing house Samlaget.

Biography

Vesaas was born in Vinje, a daughter of novelist Tarjei Vesaas and poet Halldis Moren Vesaas, and sister of Olav Vesaas. She graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Oslo in 1965.
She was awarded the Brage Prize honorary award in 2007, and also the Nynorsk User of the Year award.
She has translated more than 50 children's books into Norwegian, using the pseudonym Hanna Midtbø, after the farm Midtbø in Vinje, where she grew up.

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