Professor Nina Witoszek is a cultural historian at the University of Oslo. Over the years, she has lectured at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of Galway. She has been invited as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and the University of Cambridge.

She first gained international recognition under the pen name Nina FitzPatrick, when her debut collection of short stories, Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia (2003), won both The Irish Times and Aer Lingus literary awards. Beyond fiction, she is the author of numerous scholarly and popular works on Scandinavian culture and history, as well as several film scripts. She has also collaborated with the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo.

In 2005, Professor Witoszek received a distinction from the Norwegian Freedom of Expression Foundation for introducing an Eastern European perspective into public debate in Scandinavia. She later became the first Polish woman to hold a regular columnist position in Aftenposten, Norway’s leading daily newspaper. She was named among the top ten most influential intellectuals in Norway by Dagbladet in 2006.

Her most recent academic publications include Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond (Routledge, 2018); The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2019; Polish edition: Korzenie Anty-autorytaryzmu, Scholar, 2020); and Det blåøyde riket: Norske tillitspatologier (Norwegian Trust Pathologies, co-authored with Eva Joly; Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2023).