Guri Vesaas is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 writer and translator of children's books, and former editor at the publishing house Samlaget. She was awarded the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...

 honorary award in 2007.

She has translated more than 50 children's books into Norwegian, using the pseudonym Hanna Midtbø, after the farm Midtbø in Vinje

Vinje

Vinje is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Åmot.-Name:...

, where she grew up.

Guri Vesaas is daughter of novelist Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas

[Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Born in Vinje, Telemark, Vesaas is widely considered to be one of Norway's greatest writers of the twentieth century and perhaps its most important since World War II....

 and lyricist Halldis Moren Vesaas

Halldis Moren Vesaas

Halldis Moren Vesaas was a Norwegian poet, translator and writer of children's books. She established herself as one of the leading female Norwegian writer of her generation.-Biography:...

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Awards

• NBU-prisen
  NBU-prisen
  NBU-prisen is a prize which is awarded by the Norwegian Writers for Children to a person or institution who had produced award winning work in children or youth literature in Norway. It is awarded every year to a Norwegian author or organization...
  
   1996
• Brage Prize
  Brage Prize
  The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...
  
   2007 – honorary award
• Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav 2007 – knight, 1st class