Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth is a Norwegian novelist, born in 1959, best known for Long Live the Post Horn! and Will and Testament. Her novel Is Mother Dead was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023, and Will and Testament was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019. She also wrote A House in Norway and Repetition, a novel in which a novelist looks back on a turbulent year of her adolescence.