Author
Linn Ullman
Birth Date
August 9, 1966
(59 Years)
Associated Country
Norway
Linn Ullmann is a Norwegian novelist and journalist known for her psychologically rich fiction and autobiographical writing. Born in 1966 in Oslo, she is the daughter of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and actress Liv Ullmann.
Ullmann has written several acclaimed novels, including Before You Sleep, Grace, and Unquiet, often exploring themes of memory, family, childhood, and emotional complexity. Her work is known for its introspective tone and subtle examination of relationships, and she is widely regarded as an important voice in contemporary Scandinavian literature.
Ullmann has written several acclaimed novels, including Before You Sleep, Grace, and Unquiet, often exploring themes of memory, family, childhood, and emotional complexity. Her work is known for its introspective tone and subtle examination of relationships, and she is widely regarded as an important voice in contemporary Scandinavian literature.
Books
Girl, 1983 2026
Paris, a winter’s night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four...
Unquiet 2021
A daughter returns to the life and memories of her aging parents, confronting the shifting nature of memory, aging, and the uneasy intimacy between parent and child. What unfolds is less a...
The Cold Song 2014
Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer’s block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of...
A Blessed Child 2009
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a...
Grace 2006
When Johan was a boy, he bargained with Death, and in good time Death obligingly took his father. And when Johan was miserably married, Death kindly took his equine first wife, leaving him a tidy sum....
Stella Descending 2004
Amid the shouts of horrified onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin’s arms before plummeting to her death. (Did he try to save her?)
So begins Linn Ullmann’s transfixing tale of...
Before You Sleep 2001
Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep reaches back from present day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to relate the emotional legacies of the Blom family.
Karin is...