Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde is a literary fiction author that has been touted as the most successful Norwegian author of contemporary times. She has sold more than 2.5 million copies of her works that have also been translated into more than forty languages. She has written more than a dozen young adult and children books that include “The Coolest Gang in the World” the series, “Across the Border” and “Battle.” In 2018 she wrote “The Snow Sister,” a children’s book that would become one of the biggest literary successes in Norwegian literature for decades. The novel went on to be published by different publishers across the world. Her first adult novel was the 2015 published “The History of Bees” that has received a range of awards including the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. Its rights have so far been sold in more than 35 jurisdictions across the globe. In 2017, the novel was a bestselling title in Germany far outselling any other book. In 2017, she published her second novel “Blue” that has also achieved just as much success as it is licensed for publication in more than 20 counties.