Teresa Grøtan

Teresa Grøtan is a journalist whose publications include “The Globalisation Book” (Globaliseringsboka). She hails from Stokmarknes in Vesterålen but lives in Bergen. Grøten graduated with a Master of Arts (with distinction) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2001. She did her Master’s thesis on cultural journalism in South Africa in a historical-political context.

In 2010, her article “The Debt Left Behind by Yunus” (Gjelda etter Yunus) was the runner-up in International Reporter’s annual award for the best Norwegian article on foreign affairs. The article, which was published in the Saturday magazine of the leading Norwegian daily Dagbladet, was also one of the chapters in The Globalisation Book. Grøtan has also written a biography of Nelson Mandela for young people, and she edited the cultural journal Syn og Segn in 2004–05. She is writing a series of children’s books about Klara, the first of which has also been published in Denmark. Grøtan was awarded the Blix Prize in 2013.

During her stay Grøtan worked on individual projects, held reading clubs for children alongside Artica resident Håvard Homstvedt and organised an open workshop to introduce how she explores ideas within her work.

Grøtan returned to Svalbard in September 2018 for the Longyearbyen Literature Festival, where a launch event for her latest book ‘Før øya synker’ was hosted, the book is partly set on Svalbard.