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Guri Vesaas

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Guri Vesaas (born 13 January 1939) is a Norway writer and translator of children's books, and former editor at the publishing house Samlaget.

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Vesaas was born in Vinje on 13 January 1939, a daughter of novelist Tarjei Vesaas and poet Halldis Moren Vesaas, and sister of Olav Vesaas. She graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Oslo in 1965.

She has translated more than 50 children's books into Norwegian, using the pseudonym Hanna Midtbø, after the farm Midtbø in Vinje, where she grew up.

She received the Bastian Prize in 2005 for her translations of children's literature. She was awarded the Brage Prize honorary award in 2007, and also the Nynorsk User of the Year award. She was awarded in 2022.

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