Guro Sibeko

Guro Jabulisile Sibeko (born 22 June 1975) is a Norwegian novelist, non-fiction writer and activist.

She was born to a Norwegian mother and South African father, a refugee from apartheid regime who had also fallen out with the ANC. She grew up in Rælingen, until joining the Blitz movement and becoming a squatter as a teenager.

Educated in Nordic languages and literature at the University of Oslo, she has issued the novels Vingespenn (Gyldendal, 2009), Ctrl + Alt + Delete (Gyldendal, 2010) and Jeg kan oppløse mørket (Juritzen, 2013) and the children's books Blodmånenatta (Cappelen Damm, 2011) and Ildulven (Cappelen Damm, 2012). She followed with a biography on her father Krigerhjerte (2013) and an anti-racist book Rasismens poetikk (2019).

Openly lesbian, she has been deputy leader of the National Association for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender People.