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Gunnhild Øyehaug

Gunnhild Øyehaug
Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her novel Wait, Blink was made into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts. She has also worked as a coeditor of the literary journal Vagant and Kraftsentrum. Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing.


Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”
February 12, 2024  By Gunnhild Øyehaug
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A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

Gunnhild Øyehaug on Paying Homage to Literary Legends
February 15, 2023  By Gunnhild Øyehaug
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Finding Humanity and Humility in Alberto Giacometti

Gunnhild Øyehaug on One of the 20th Century's Great Sculptors
February 21, 2020  By Gunnhild Øyehaug
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One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."
August 6, 2019  By Gunnhild Øyehaug
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