Merete Wiger (January 3, 1921 – December 24, 2015) was a Norwegian novelist, author of short stories,

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

and

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. She made her literary debut in 1957 with the

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''Så låste hun seg inn''. Her novel '' - grensen'' from 1965 is written in the form of a diary of an imprisoned women who tries to explain why she murdered her husband, but it later turns out her husband is alive and the woman is actually locked up in a mental institution. Wiger was awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment in 1970.

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