Berit Hedemann

Berit Hedemann (b. 1949 in Trysil) has won several international awards for her radio documentaries and radio theatre productions. Her first book, the children’s book Melinda’s Mysterious Mystery, was published in 1990.

All My Contempt. The Story of a Love from 2014 was her first work of fiction for adults, described by the critiques as "a furious, painfully resigned debut novel which intelligently dissects the emotional life of a woman who falls for an inveterate, lying drunkard." (Dagsavisen).

In Confessions of a Bear Huntress, from 2018, a woman of the 1968-generation looks back at her own life, disappointed with betrayals, defeats and men, generally speaking. Selling her posh villa in the western part of Oslo, she moves to the abandoned family farm in a secluded valley in the Eastern Norwegian backcountry. It is a book about hate and desire, about frozen rivers and about the Sumerian High Priestess Erheduanna, known as the woman who wrote the world’s first erotic poem. It's burlesque, fun and intelligent.