Days in the History of Silence

About the Author and the Translator

MERETHE LINDSTRØM has published several collections of short stories, novels, and a children’s book. She was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for her short-story collection The Guests. In 2008 she received the Dobloug Prize for her entire literary work. Days in the History of Silence is her most recent novel, winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature, and nominated for the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize and the Youth Critics’ Prize. She lives in Oslo, Norway.

ANNE BRUCE graduated from Glasgow University with degrees in Norwegian and English and has traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia on lecture and study visits. She has translated Wencke Mühleisen’s I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over, Jørn Lier Horst’s Dregs, and Anne Holt’s Blessed Are Those Who Thirst.