I was born 28.11.1969 and grew up in Tana, Finnmark, the very north-east part of Norway. When I was 16 my family moved to Oslo, and since I have lived here, and in Nesodden for eleven years, but now I live in the city again.

I wanted to be a psychologist, I became a writer when I stood in line waiting to get on to the professional studies in psychology. I did not know I could write, that I had something to say. But I think probably not that writing is to convey a message, that I have prefixed mind about what to say, no, writing is to open a place, a beeing-space.

I heard Monika Fagerholm once say : " I write to change. " I wonder if I do too. In a way , perhaps, but more as an effect, that comes later, as a consequence. I write to be there. Here. Be with what I write, when I write. And I think, subsequently, change does take place. But I don't write to change. I write to explore whatever is, right now. To be with it, in the writing.

My latest book, published autumn 2013, is called There is a large open square in Bordeaux. Now I've just finished writing a new novel which I started immediately after the Bordeaux-book was finished. It came as a late twin, I had to end the Bordeaux-book because I felt there was another coming.

It is too early to tell what it's called, or what it is about. But the two, the Bordeaux-book and the new one, are interrelated, like wandering in different layers of a recognizable landscape, not with the same people, but echoing aspects of their relationship.