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“I always start my novels because I have a question”: Best-selling Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth on finding the right words

By Linnéa Pesonen
A woman sitting at a table, writing

Photo: Ethan Gregory Unson Floro

Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth spins tales that cut straight to the core of the human existence. Since her breakthrough in the early 1980s, Hjorth has mined the nooks and crannies of life and its complex relationships to tell stories that resonate far beyond the Nordics