Tanja Dinessen was born in Glasgow, Scotland with a Scottish mother and a Norwegian father. She spent her first ten years in Africa, then moved to Norway. Working most of her adult life as a commercial pilot, Tanja lived in several countries for work. She is married to fellow pilot Arve Håkon and currently resides in Italy. She has one adult son.
When a fishing boat erupts in flames off the coast of Sicily, twenty-six lives are lost to the sea—and three strangers are forever changed.
Monkeys in Aviation by Tanja Dinessen follows the remarkable journey of Arve Hakon, a pilot whose life takes off in the late seventies and touches down in the present day.
