PAST RESIDENTS

Line Prip
Nominated by The Queen Sonja Print Award Charlotte Hetherington Nominated by The Queen Sonja Print Award Charlotte Hetherington

Line Prip

At the core of Line Prip’s artistic practice is her interest in how we are affected by other people and by the context in which we are situated. Human relations are permeated with what we cannot see, and in her spatial works she is materialising the invisible mechanisms that underlie our human existence by translating them into a physical, sensual experience.

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Maja Lunde
Nominated by Norwegian Pen Charlotte Hetherington Nominated by Norwegian Pen Charlotte Hetherington

Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde (b. 1975) is the most successful Norwegian author of her generation and one of the country’s most prominent advocates for the climate cause. Her books are published in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 2,5 million copies worldwide.

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Ole Robert Sunde
Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner

Ole Robert Sunde

Born in 1952, he made his debut in 1982 with the poetry collection Hakk i hæl. Since his second book, Fra dette punktet trekker jeg en omkrets (1982), he has used a variety of genres – poetry, essays, prose and novels – to develop a remarkable, heterogeneous body of work.

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Rune Ottosen
Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner

Rune Ottosen

Rune Ottosen (1950) is Professor emeritus in journalism at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University.

He has written extensively on press history and media coverage of war and conflicts. He is the co-editor (with Tormod Heier and Terje Tvedt) of the book Libya. Krigens uutholdelig letthet. He is co-author with Stig Arne Nohrstedt of several books, the latest New War, New Medis and New War Journalism (2014).

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Patrik Berg

Patrik Berg

Patrik Berg (1982, Härnosand, Sweden) is an Oslo-based artist who works mainly with drawing and printmaking. Berg is true to the medium of print and interested in its status as a complex artistic practice rather than a method of reproduction. He combines the traditions of Albrecht Dürer and Henry Darger while addressing questions about ecology, ornament, composition and language.

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Alena Kazlova
Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner

Alena Kazlova

Alena Kazlova (Anka Upala) is a Belarusian writer and translator of literature from English, Finnish and Swedish. She is a member of the Belarusian PEN Centre and a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers where she also coordinated the work of the writing school.

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Hans-Olav Thyvold
Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner Nominated by Norwegian PEN Tom Warner

Hans-Olav Thyvold

Hans-Olav Thyvold was born in 1959 and has published several nonfiction books and worked as a journalist, radio and tv host. In 2017 he published his first work of fiction “Snille hunder kommer ikke til sydpolen” which deals with the fate of the 100 or so dogs that Roald Amundsen brought with him to the south pole.

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Oswaldo Maciá

Oswaldo Maciá

Oswaldo Maciá is a Colombian artist based in London, he works primarily with sound and smell. Maciá grew up in Cartagena de Indias where he attended the school of fine arts. He has later studied at Llotja school in Barcelona as well as Guildhall and Goldsmith's College in London. His olfactory-acoustic sculptures have been exhibited all over the world and is held by Tate among other international collections.

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