Biography

Helene Uri, who is a doctor of lingustics, left her position at the University of Oslo in 2005, and has been a fulltime writer since then.

Helene Uri is an experienced writer; her output so far consisting of more than 14 books: novels, children's books, books about language and linguistics.

She is translated (or being translated) into sixteen languages (Swedish, Danish, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Russian, Serbian, Czech, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Japanese, Hindi and Bangla).

Her novel The Best among Us (Norway's first campus novel) has sold more than 70,000 copies in Norway alone, and was on the national bestselling lists for more than a year. Her latest novel, The righteous, was published in May 2009.