Linn Ullmann (born in Oslo, Norway in 1966) is the daughter of actress Liv Ullmann and director Ingmar Bergman, and a respected Norwegian author and journalist. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Ullman with Roger Moore and Sacheen Littlefeather at the Academy Awards in 1973. ... Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman   listen? (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA in Unicode notation) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ...

At an early age she occasionally appeared in her mother's films, and dreamed of becoming an opera singer but dropped the idea since she couldn't sing. She then decided to follow in the footsteps of her famous mother, but after a few years at a theatre school in New York, the teacher told her she was a terrible actress. "My mother agreed with the teacher", Ullmann has recounted, "so I became a journalist". She studied literature for six years in New York, finally graduating from New York University in 1988 and then she began work on her Ph.D the same year.

In 1992 she permanently moved back to her native Norway and getting employed by the tabloid Dagbladet, one of Norway's largest newspapers. Dagbladet is Norways third largest newspaper with a circulation of 191,164 copies in 2002. ...

Eventually she would become one of the most prominent newspaper journalists in Norway, and subsequently a highly successful and Award winning author. As of 2005 she has written three novels, some of them translated into more than 30 languages, they have received critical acclaim also far outside Norway. Her debut novel, "Before You Sleep" was sold to 14 countries (including the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany) before it was even published in Norway, a flying start rarely bestowed upon Norwegian authors. The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...

Works

• Før du sovner (Before You Sleep) (1998)
• Når jeg er hos deg (Stella Descending) (2003)
• Nåde (Grace) (2005)