Mona Levin

Author & Journalist

Mona Levin (1939) has been associated with the leading Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, for 50 years, the last 25 as a freelance theatre critic. Her main fields are classical music and the theatre. She studied literature and theatre in the US and at the Norwegian Academy of Theatre. Over the years she has published several biographies on musicians and actors, as well as that of adventurers, a Red Cross General Director and even cook books. Her last volume (2015) told the story of her mother’s family, while she ghosted the life story of her father in 1982. She was editor of the Klassisk Musikkmagasin for 25 years and is still editing the digital version, Klassiskmusikk.com. For nine years she edited Listen to Norway, an English language magazine on Norwegian music which was published internationally, and she was editor of programs at The Norwegian Opera for eight years. Mona Levin often contributes as lecturer and social commentator. She has won the “Critic of the Year” prize, and she has received the Language prize “The Golden Pen”.