Helene Uri

Book talk in the Adventure Room at The Hamsun Centre , Tuesday 4 August and lecture in the Æventyrsalen on Wednesday 5 August

Author and speaker

Helene Uri (b. 1964) is a linguist and author, and has written a number of books in several genres, including novels, children's books and non-fiction. She has a doctorate in linguistics, and is employed at Kristiania University College, where she works at the Norwegian Children's Book Institute as a professor II in creative writing. As an author, she has received a number of awards, including the Ministry of Culture's Children's Book Prize, the Brage Prize in the non-fiction category, and the Riksmålsforbundets Children's and Youth Book Prize.
Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.   

Uri hosts the literature seminar during the Hamsundanese Festival
with a newly written lecture on gendered language in Hamsun's novels. The lecture is based on the novels Pan and
Markens Grøde and builds on the analyses from the book I drank naked (Gyldendal, 2024), where she, together with research librarian Lars Johnsen, investigated how male and female authors write differently. 

Photo: Private