Ida Hegazi Høyer

Ida Hegazi Høyer (born 1981) is a Norwegian writer. Of dual Danish-Egyptian heritage, she grew up in Lofoten and Oslo. She has published three novels to date: Under the World (2012), Out (2013) and Forgive Me (2014). She won the Bjørnson Stipend from the Norwegian Booksellers Association in 2014. In 2015, she won the EU Prize for Literature for Forgive Me.