Author

Ylva – Hilde Østby

Hilde Østby, born 1975, is a Norwegian writer, historian of ideas, journalist and former editor. Her first novel appeared in 2013 under the title Lexicon om lengsel. Adventures in Memory, written with her sister, has been published in seventeen countries. Ylva Østby, born 1979, is a Norwegian neuropsychologist and writer. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oslo on the neurocognitive development of children and adolescents, and continues her postdoctoral work at the same university.