Days in the History of Silence

Merethe Lindstrøm has published several novels and collections of short stories, and a children's book. She was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and for the Norwegian Critics' Award in 2008 for her short-story collection The Guests. The same year, she received the Doubloug Prize for her entire literary work. Days in the History of Silence is her most recent novel, nominated for the Norwegian Channel 2 Listeners' Novel Prize, and winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Prize. She lives in Oslo, Norway.

Anne Bruce has degrees in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University covering both Nynorsk and Bokmål, classic and modern texts, written and spoken Norwegian, as well as Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, and Danish. She has traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia on lecture and study visits, and undertaken translation and interpretation for visiting groups from Norway. She has translated Wencke Mühleisen's I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over, Jørn Lier Horst's Dregs, and Anne Holt's Blessed Are Those Who Thirst.