Maja Lunde

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Maja Lunde at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Maja Lunde (born July 30, 1975 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer and screenwriter .

Life

Maja Lunde grew up in Bislett, a district in the north of Oslo. In 1996 she began studying literature with a minor in psychology at the university in her hometown, before taking up a course in media and communication studies with a specialization in film history . As part of this course, Lunde published a work on the Norwegian film director Nils R. Müller in 2001 .

After completing her studies, Maja Lunde worked, among other things, for culture and film festivals, cinemas and film museums in Norway, and during this time she was already writing scripts for Norwegian television, especially for children's programs.

She has been a full-time screenwriter since 2009. In 2012 the Norwegian published her first children's book, Over grensen, about Jewish children who flee from Norway to Sweden , which was not occupied by the National Socialists , in 1942 . Her first novel was published in Norway in 2015 under the title Bienes historie (German title: The history of bees ). In this, she combines environmental problems using the example of bee deaths with personal fates. Lunde got the idea for this after seeing a documentary on the subject in 2013. Because of the great success of the book in Norway, the publication rights were sold in more than 30 countries, including Germany .

Maja Lunde in the Bergen Public Library , 2016

When writing her first novel, the author planned to publish a total of four books on the subject of the environment, a so-called climate quartet. The second book in the series was published in 2017 under the title Blå (German title: The History of Water) in her home country. In 2019, Przewalskis hest (German title: The last of their kind) was published, the third book in the series.

Maja Lunde is married and has three sons.

Works

Novels

  • Bienes historie (2015) (German by Ursel Allenstein : Die Geschichte der Bienen , btb, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-442-75684-7 )
    Maja Lunde had a research assistant at the Oslo Natural History Museum as a consultant for the book concept.
    After its success, the adult novel was translated into thirty languages ​​and the corresponding publication rights were granted (as of the end of 2017).
  • Blå (2017) (German by Ursel Allenstein: The history of water , btb, Munich 2018, ISBN 3-442-75774-6 ).
  • Przewalskis hest (2019) (German by Ursel Allenstein: The last of their kind , btb, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75790-9 )

Books for children and young readers

  • Over grensen (2012)
  • Battle (2014) (German by Antje Subey-Cramer: Battle , Stuttgart: Urachhaus , 2018, ISBN 3-8251-5147-6 )
  • Verdens kuleste gjeng (2015) [German: the coolest gang in the world ]
  • Det all the best (2017)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Maja Lunde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the bees disappear , Norddeutscher Rundfunk , April 26, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2018
  2. ↑ Maja Lunde is the bees ambassador , Hamburger Abendblatt , September 5, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Suksessforfatteren: Flyskam er sunt , Dagbladet , July 16, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2020
  4. ↑ a b After a bestseller about bees, now a book about water scarcity. at www.spiegelde, accessed on December 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ Reading sample from The History of Bees on webreader.mytolino.com.
  6. ↑ These are the best-selling books of 2018 , Börsenblatt , January 3, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018
  7. ↑ The Readers' Prize 2017 , Lovelybooks , 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lunde, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo