# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vigdis-hjorth
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:55.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vigdis-hjorth"
name: "Vigdis Hjorth"
slug: "vigdis-hjorth"
description: "Vigdis Hjorth is a Norwegian novelist whose Long Live the Post Horn (2012) and Will and Testament are the most widely known among English readers. She was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019 for Will and Testament, which had been recently translated into English. Her novel Is Mother Dead (2020), which was translated into English in 2022, was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Her 2023 novel Gjentakelsen will be published in English as Repetition in March 2026."
tagline: "Norwegian author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vigdis_Hjorth_2023-3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.16
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.873872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1097282"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump