We create language; language makes us what we are - our life stories and their meaning: 'Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved' (Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands). 'With language you can dare, you can ruminate, you can pillage, you can weep, you can conquer. It is as fundamental as motherhood, but the seed is within yourself. The sperms are the moonbeams and sunbeams and shadows of every thought, half thought, and follicle of feeling that have attended you since your first breath of hardship' (Edna O'Brien, Time and Tide).
- Novels: Jumping Naked, Under the Bridge, Mafia, He Likes Me, Wrestling, Tempus Fugit
- Praise for Jumping Naked (2007) and Under the Bridge (2006)
- Praise for Mafia (2004), He Likes Me (2001) and Wrestling (2000)
- Novel extracts; first chapter: Under the Bridge, Jumping Naked
- Jumping Naked: Gyldendal Agency - Catalogue 2007
- Previous Catalogues
- Various presentations and interviews: Dagbladet, Gyldendal, Kulturnett, Firda
..Ny Tid, Nationen, Hamar Arbeiderblad, Zine Travel
..NRK, The Book Program no. 7, Radio P2's Fiction Award 2006
- Teachers' Manual: Room for All - Eyes on Everyone
- Translation, English-Norwegian: Terry Pratchett: The Wee Free Men / Skrellingene
..A hat full of sky / En hatt full av himmel, Wintersmith/Vintersmeden
- Main Thesis, Cand. Philol. University of Bergen 1996:
..Edna O'Brien - Exile, Ambivalence and Return to the Womb
- Contact: marita.liabo[at]getmail.no
- Norwegian Pages
