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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2017
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • A House in Norway tells the story of Alma, a divorced textile artist who makes a living from weaving standards for trade unions and marching bands. She lives alone in an old villa, and rents out an apartment in her house to supplement her income. ...



  • Longlisted for the National Book Award Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret -- the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers of Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard (New...



  • "Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers." " Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?

    From the author of the 2019 National Book Award Longlisted Will and Testament

    Ellinor, a 35-year-old media con...



  • A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament'To mother is to murder, or close...



  • A passionate and groundbreaking bestseller from one of Norway’s most highly-regarded and award-winning novelists, for readers of Annie Ernaux's A Simple Passion and Coco Mellors' Cleopatra and FrankensteinA relatively young woman, aged th...



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    A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly regarded novelists

    When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vigdis Hjorth has published 6 books.

The next book by Vigdis Hjorth, If Only, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Vigdis Hjorth, A House in Norway, was published in February 2017.

No. Vigdis Hjorth does not write books in series.