Gunnhild Øyehaug

Biography

Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her novel Wait, Blink (Gyldendal, 2009)was made into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts. She has also worked as a coeditor of the literary journals Vagant and Kraftsentrum. Øyehaug is the author of Knots: Stories, forthcoming from FSG in July. 

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FICTION / Summer 2017

Nice and Mild

By Gunnhild Øyehaug ,  Translated by Kari Dickson ,  Illustration by Eleni Kalorkoti


This is going to be—no, I don’t want to be categorical—this could be the start of a virtuous circle. My psychologist has told me that I need to say positive things to myself, only I don’t want to be too positive, as that might just make...