Cold Song (Ullmann)

Author Bio
• Birth—August 9, 1966
• Where—Oslo, Norway
• Education—B.A., New York University
• Awards—Readers' Prize; Amalie Skram Award; Golden Pen (all Norwegian)
• Currently—lives in Oslo, Norway


Linn Ullmann (originally Karin Beate Ullmann) is a Norwegian author and journalist. She is the daughter of actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman. She graduated from New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on her Ph.D. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published four novels.

Writing
When her first and critically acclaimed novel Before You Sleep was published in 1998, she was already known as an influential literary critic. Her second novel, Stella Descending was published in 2001 and her third novel Grace was published in 2002. For Grace, Ullmann received the literary award The Readers' Prize in Norway, and the book was named one of the top ten novels that year by the prestigious newspaper Weekendavisen in Denmark. In 2007, Grace was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom, and in March the same year, the Norwegian theater Riksteatret played a successful run of the theatrical play Grace, based on the novel.

Ullmann's fourth novel A Blessed Child was published in Norway in 2005 and shortlisted for the prestigious Norwegian literature prize—the Brage Prize. In 2007, she was awarded the Amalie Skram Award for her literary work, and she received Gullpennen (the Golden Pen) for her journalism in Norway's leading morning newspaper Aftenposten. In 2008, A Blessed Child was named Best Translated novel in the British newspaper The Independent, and in 2009 the novel was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in the UK. Her fifth novel, The Cold Song, was published in Norway in late 2011. It was translated into English in 2013 by Barbara J. Haveland and published in the U.S. in 2014.

Ullmann's novels are published throughout Europe and the United States and are translated into 30 languages.

Literary awards
Gold Pen (Norwegian) (2007)
Amalie Skram Prize (Norwegian) (2007)
Norwegian Readers' Prize (Norwegian) (2002)

Other
Ullmann is co-founder (2009) and former Artistic Director of the international artist residency foundation The Bergman Estate on Faro. She served on the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Ullmann is married to Niels Fredrik Dahl, a novelist, playwright and poet. They live in Oslo. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 2/16/2014.)