Margit Sandemo in the Götegorg bookfestival at 2006.

Margit Sandemo (b. 1924) is a Norwegian author, living in Toten in Oppland, Norway. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 175 KB) Summary Picture taken at Gothenburg Book Fair 2005 by Lennart Guldbrandsson Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Margit Sandemo Metadata This file contains... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 175 KB) Summary Picture taken at Gothenburg Book Fair 2005 by Lennart Guldbrandsson Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Margit Sandemo Metadata This file contains... Toten is a landscape in the eastern part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Østre Toten and Vestre Toten. ... Oppland is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. ...

Margit has been writing since the early 1964. Her books, which weave supernatural themes with historical facts, have made her well-loved throughout Nordic countries and beyond. Her books can be read in Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, German, Polish, and Hungarian.

She has written some stand-alone books, but her main claims to fame are her series: Sagan om Isfolket, Häxmästeren, Sagan om Ljusets Rike, De Svarta Riddarna, and Blåljus!. Of her extensive series, Sagan om Isfolket is perhaps that for which she is best known. It is made up of 47 books following generations from the 1500s until present day as they battle a terrible family curse. The Europe of Margit Sandemo is filled with spirits, gnomes, witches, wizards, evil monks, lusty demons, and a lot of regular people who prevail (or fail!) on the basis of their character.