Ståle Grut Author

Ståle Grut is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo’s Department of Media and Communication. He spent close to a decade at the Norwegian public broadcaster’s R&D-lab, NRKbeta as a strategic advisor and journalist covering new media. Grut has also served as an advisor at the Tinius Trust, controlling the largest shareholding of Schibsted Media Group, and a board member of the Norwegian Online News Association.

Diane Oatley has worked with the translation of Norwegian literature into English, both fiction and non-fiction, for more than twenty-five years. In 2015 she was awarded NORLA’s (Norwegian Literature Abroad) annual translator’s prize for nonfiction. She has translated more than thirty fiction and non-fiction titles from Norwegian into English, and two of her fiction translations were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, including her translation of Maja Lunde’s seminal work The History of Bees, published by Simon & Schuster, NY.