Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde
Born 1975 (age 42–43)
Nationality Norwegian
Occupation Script writer
Novelist
Children's writer
Awards Norwegian Booksellers' Prize

Maja Lunde (born 1975) , is a Norwegian script writer, novelist and children's writer.

She made her literary debut in 2012 with the children's novel Over grensen, a thriller set in 1942, where "Sarah" and "Daniel" are Jews trying to escape prosecution from the Nazis during the German occupation of Norway, and find their way to neutral Sweden.[1][2] She was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 2015 for the novel Bienes historie.[3] Bienes historie was published with the title The History of Bees in the United States by Touchstone, a division of Simon and Schuster, in 2017. As script writer she has contributed to the tv series Barnas supershow, Hjem and Side om side. She graduated from the University of Oslo.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Maja Lunde". gyldendal.no. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Over grensen". gyldendal.no. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bienes historie er vinner av Bokhandlerprisen 2015". aschehoug.no. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Maja Lunde". aschehoug.no. Retrieved 18 January 2017.



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