Guro Jabulisile Sibeko (born 22 June 1975) is a Norwegian novelist, non-fiction writer and activist. She was born to a Norwegian mother and

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n father, a refugee from apartheid regime who had also fallen out with the ANC. She grew up in

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, until joining the Blitz movement and becoming a

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as a teenager. Educated in Nordic languages and literature at the

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, she has issued the novels ''Vingespenn'' (Gyldendal, 2009), ''Ctrl + Alt + Delete'' (Gyldendal, 2010) and ''Jeg kan oppløse mørket'' (Juritzen, 2013) and the children's books ''Blodmånenatta'' (Cappelen Damm, 2011) and ''Ildulven'' (Cappelen Damm, 2012). She followed with a biography on her father ''Krigerhjerte'' (2013)Forfatterkatalogen
/ref> and an anti-racist book ''Rasismens poetikk'' (2019). Openly lesbian, she has been deputy leader of the

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1975 births Living people People from Rælingen Norwegian people of South African descent University of Oslo alumni Norwegian women novelists Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian women non-fiction writers Norwegian lesbian writers Norwegian LGBTQ novelists Lesbian novelists {{Norway-novelist-stub