Her father was the composer Robert Levin and her mother Solveig Levin.
In November 1942, when she was 3 years old, she fled with her mother and nine other persons across the border from Norway to Sweden. The Nazis occupied Norway and it was dangerous for her Jewish family to stay there. During the flight she started to scream of fright and coldness. One of the fugitives wanted to strangle her, because her screaming set all their lives in great danger. But instead they got the idea of giving her a mixture of sleeping pills and frozen lingonberry. It worked and they could carry the sleeping child across the border to Sweden.
Lives in Sandefjord in Norway.
Works as a dramatic critic at the Norwegian daily paper Aftenposten.
