PORTRET z HISTORIĄ Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullmann, właśc. Linn Karin Beate Ullmann (ur. 9 sierpnia 1966 w Oslo) – norweska pisarka, dziennikarka oraz aktorka dziecięca.

„…Linn Ullmann spotkałem i fotografowałem 11 grudnia 1986 r. w gmachu ONZ w Nowym Jorku, gdzie obchodzona była 40 rocznica UNICEF, co ciekawe patrząc na nią myślałem o Liv Ullmann–https://www.czczaplinski.com/post/portret-z-historią-liv-ullmann …” – Czesław Czapliński.

Jest córką aktorki Liv Ullmann i reżysera Ingmara Bergmana. Studiowała literaturę angielską na Uniwersytecie Nowojorskim. Autorka między innymi książki Zanim zaśniesz (1998). 

Za osiągnięcia literackie otrzymała nagrody: Gullpennen (Złote Pióro), Nagrodę Amalie Skram oraz Norweską Nagrodę Czytelników. 

Zasiadała w jury konkursu głównego na 64. MFF w Cannes (2011). 

Twórczość: Før du sovner (1998) (polskie wydanie, 2004; Zanim zaśniesz, tłumaczenie: Marta Ciszewska i Joanna Sypniewska); Når jeg er hos deg (2000) (dosł. gdy jestem z Tobą; ang. tytuł: Stella Descending – dosł. Stella spadająca); Nåde (2002) (dosł. łaska); Et velsignet barn (2005) (dosł. dziecko błogosławione); Det dyrebare (2011) (polskie wydanie: We mgle, 2016); De urolige (2015) (polskie wydanie, 2018: Niespokojni, tłumaczenie: Iwona Zimnicka).

Filmografia: 1971: Emigranci (Utvandrarna); 1973: Szepty i krzyki(Viskningar och rop); 1978: Jesienna sonata (Höstsonaten).

PORTRAIT with HISTORY Linn Ullmann

Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann (born 9 August 1966) is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.

       "...I met and photographed Linn Ullmann on December 11, 1986, at the UN building in New York, where the 40th anniversary of UNICEF was celebrated. Interestingly, looking at her I thought of Liv Ullmann - https://www.czczaplinski.com/post/portret-z-historią-liv-ullmann  ..." - Czesław Czapliński.

Ullmann was born in Oslo, Norway, to Norwegian actress, author and director Liv Ullmann and Swedish director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman. She grew up in New York City and Oslo. 

Ullmann attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan. When she was fifteen, she was "kicked out" (as she puts it) of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. She attended Juilliard School as a prospective dancer and graduated from New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on her PhD. 

When her first and critically acclaimed novel Before You Sleep was published in 1998, she was already known as an influential literary critic. Her second novel, Stella Descending was published in 2001 and her third novel Grace was published in 2002. For Grace, Ullmann received the literary award The Readers' Prize in Norway, and Grace was named one of the top ten novels that year by the prestigious newspaper Weekendavisen in Denmark. In 2007, Grace was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom, and in March the same year, the Norwegian theater Riksteatret played a successful run of the theatrical play Grace, based on the novel.

  Ullmann's fourth novel A Blessed Child was published in Norway the fall of 2005, and it was shortlisted for the prestigious Norwegian literature prize – the Brage Prize. In 2007, she was awarded the Amalie Skram Award for her literary work, and she received Gullpennen (the Golden Pen) for her journalism in Norway's leading morning newspaper Aftenposten. In 2008, A Blessed Child was named Best Translated novel in the British newspaper The Independent, and in 2009 the novel was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in Ireland. Ullmann's novels are published throughout Europe and the United States and are translated into 30 languages. 

Ullmann is co-founder (2009) and former artistic director of the international artist residency foundation The Bergman Estate on Fårö. 

She served on the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. 

Ullmann's fifth novel, The Cold Song, was published in Norway on 24 November 2011.

 In 2015, Ullmann appeared as a featured author, leading a writing seminar, at the annual Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

Ullmann is married to Niels Fredrik Dahl, a novelist, playwright and poet. They live in Oslo. She has two children, including Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, and two stepchildren. 

Literary works: Before You Sleep (Før du sovner) 1998; Stella Descending(Når jeg er hos deg) 2001; Grace (Nåde) 2002; A Blessed Child (Et Velsignet Barn) 2005; The Cold Song (Det dyrebare) 2011; Unquiet (De urolige) 2019; Girl, 1983 (Jente, 1983) 2021.

Literary awards: Gold Pen (in Norwegian) (2007); Amalie Skram Prize (in Norwegian) (2007); Norwegian Re aders' Prize (in Norwegian) (2002).