Ane Barmen (born 1984) is a Norwegian novelist. She hails from

Vågsøy Vågsøy is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The municipality's administrative center was the town Måløy. Other population centers in Vågsøy included ...

and attended

Firda Upper Secondary School Firda Upper Secondary School () is a school located in the town of Sandane in the municipality of Gloppen in Vestland county, Norway. The highway passes just north of the school. The school features in the NRK series Lovleg. In 1927, Kaare Foste ...

. In 2015 she won the writing contest "women's life in 2015" with a text about visiting the

gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...

. She made her literary debut with ''Draumar betyr ingenting'', a

young adult fiction Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is characterized by simpler world build ...

novel published by

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norway, Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Denmark, Dan ...

in 2019. The book earned her a

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Pr ...

for children's and young adult literature in 2019, and was also nominated for the

Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize is awarded for a work of children's literature, children's or young adult fiction, young adult literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries. It was establish ...

. She followed with the novel ''Pappa var nesten på Woodstock'' (2021) and the children's book ''Tone!'' (2024), both on Gyldendal.

References

1984 births Living people People from Vågsøy Norwegian children's writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers Nynorsk-language writers {{Norway-writer-stub