Sarita Skagnes

Sarita Skagnes, (nee Satwant Kaur; born 1969) is a Norwegian author.

When the father returned to India, Skagnes' grandmother pleaded with him to take Sarita to Norway as well.

[1] At the age of nineteen, she met the Norwegian man Alex Skagnes and even though her family protested and threatened them, they got married a year later and moved to Värmland in Sweden.

Her book Bare en datter (Just a daughter) has been published and translated into Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and English.

[2] Skagnes was on 9 July 2013 the presenter for Sommar i P1 at Sveriges Radio where she talked about the struggle to find her identity and women's rights.