Nina Witoszek (Fitzpatrick) is a Polish-Irish-Norwegian writer and research professor at the Center for Development and the Environment in Oslo.
She is also director of the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo.
Until 2001 her fictional work – including The Loves of Faustyna (1995) and Daimons (2003), as well as several well film scripts – was written together with her late husband Pat Sheeran.
[citation needed] She is also a script writer of a series of documentary films about iconic Norwegian thinkers and explorers, such as Fridtjof Nansen, Arne Næss, and Thor Heyerdahl.
Witoszek is the recipient of the Norwegian Freedom of Expression Foundation (Fritt Ord) Award for “bringing Eastern European perspectives to the public debate in Scandinavia.” In 2006 she was chosen by the Norwegian daily Dagbladet as “one of the 10 most important intellectuals in Norway.”