Endre Harvold Kvangraven
Photo: Studio Hjelm
In residence: July - September 2024
Endre Harvold Kvangraven is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. He has lived in various African countries but is now back in his native Norway, where his research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature, exploring themes such as ornithological practice, identification, and care. He holds a PhD in Nordic Literature from the University of Stavanger.
He is the author of Ulv i det norske kulturlandskapet (Res Publica, 2021), a work of literary nonfiction tracing the role of wolves in Norwegian cultural history. During his time in Svalbard, he will be working on a book about birds.