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 Ullmann in 2011 | |
| Born | Karin Beate Ullmann (1966-08-09)9 August 1966 (age 59) Oslo, Norway |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Spouse | Niels Fredrik Dahl |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Liv Ullmann Ingmar Bergman |
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Karin Beate "Linn"Ullmann (born 9 August 1966) is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published seven novels.
Ullmann was born in Oslo, Norway, to Norwegian actress, author, and directorLiv Ullmann and Swedish director and screenwriterIngmar Bergman. She grew up inNew York City[1] and Oslo.[2]
Ullmann attendedProfessional Children's School inManhattan.[3][4] When she was 15, she was "kicked out" (as she puts it) of theNorwegian National Opera and Ballet.[5] She attendedJuilliard School as a prospective dancer[1] and graduated fromNew York University, where she studied English literature and began work on her PhD.
When Ullmann’s first 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,Grace, in 2002. ForGrace, Ullmann received the literary award The Readers' Prize in Norway, andGrace was named one of the top ten novels that year by the Danish newspaperWeekendavisen. In 2007,Grace was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom, and in the Norwegian theater Riksteatret played a successful run of the theatrical playGrace, based on the novel.
Ullmann's fourth novel,A Blessed Child, was published in Norway in 2005, and was shortlisted for theBrage Prize. In 2007, she received the Amalie Skram Award for her literary work and the Gullpennen (Golden Pen) for her journalism in the Norwegian newspaperAftenposten. In 2008,A Blessed Child was named Best Translated novel in the British newspaperThe Independent, and in 2009 the novel was longlisted for theIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize[6][7] in the UK and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in Ireland. Ullmann's novels are published throughout Europe and the United States and are translated into 30 languages.
Ullmann is co-founder (2009) and former artistic director of the international artist residency foundation The Bergman Estate onFårö.
She served on the jury for the main competition at the2011 Cannes Film Festival.[8]
Ullmann's fifth novel,The Cold Song, was published in Norway in 2011.
In 2015, Ullmann appeared as a featured author, leading a writing seminar, at the annualIceland Writers Retreat inReykjavik,Iceland.[1]
Ullmann is married toNiels Fredrik Dahl, a novelist, playwright and poet. They live inOslo. She has two children, includingHalfdan Ullmann Tøndel, and two stepchildren.[9]
