Margunn Vikingstad

Margunn Vikingstad (b. 1971, Norway) is a literary critic and translator who has studied Nordic languages and literature at the University of Oslo.

She was a literary critic at the Norwegian newspaper Dag og Tid from 2001 to 2013 and has since then been a critic at the newspaper Morgenbladet. In recent years Vikingstad has combined her work as a critic with translating novels.

Her latest work of translation, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, was nominated for both the Norwegian Critics Prize for best translation and the Bastian Prize in 2018.

Her first book, Rapportar frå randsonene [Reports from the Margins], was published in 2021.