Announcing the Norsk Faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening (NFFO) 2024 nominated Residents

Artica and our key partner Norsk Faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening are very pleased to announce the nominated writers for 2024:

Roald Berg is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Stavanger, working mainly with polar history, foreign and defence policy history. He has contributed to several works on the history of Norwegian foreign policy, defence history and polar history. Roald Berg has published, among other things, the introductory book "Norwegian Foreign Policy after 1814", a volume in the history of the Norwegian Armed Forces, co-authored Norwegian Polar History, and contributed chapters to "The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions" and "A History of the European Restoration", edited several history anthologies, written a number of articles in international journals and contributed to the dissemination of history and international politics in chronicles, lectures and interviews nationally and internationally. During his residency at Artica, he will embark on a book about the history of Norwegian polar imperialism, centred on one of the key players who was around at the turn of the century.

Endre Harvold Kvangraven, is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. He has lived in various African countries but is now back in his native Norway, where his research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature, exploring themes such as ornithological practice, identification, and care. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Stavanger, associated with the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities. Endre is the author of Ulv i det norske kulturlandskapet (Res Publica, 2021), a work of literary nonfiction tracing the role of wolves in Norwegian cultural history. During his time in Svalbard, he will be working on a book about birds.

Ellen Viste lives in Bergen, where she works as a communication adviser at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Having a background as a meteorologist and climate researcher, she has also worked extensively with popular science writing on weather and climate. In 2023 she published the book Tales of the wind (Kolombia / Bonnier Norsk Forlag; in Norwegian). She holds a PhD in tropical meteorology from the University of Bergen, previously having studied there and at UNIS in Longyearbyen. Her Master thesis was about the distribution of precipitation on the glacier Austre Brøggerbreen, near Ny-Ålesund.

We look forward to welcoming them to Longyearbyen and sharing news of their stay throughout the year via Artica’s social media: Facebook, Twitter, instagram and the monthly newsletter.