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.

[5] She attended Juilliard School as a prospective dancer[1] and graduated from New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on her PhD.

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.

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[6][7] in the UK and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in Ireland.