Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 19 July 1959) is a Norwegian novelist best known for English translations of ''Long Live the Post Horn'' (2012) and ''Will and Testament''. She was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for ''Will and Testament'', which had been recently translated into English. A few years later, in 2023, her novel ''Is Mother Dead'' (2020), which was translated in 2022, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Provided by Wikipedia