Liv Hatle war born in Fræna on the Norwegian West coast in 1937 and died in Bergen in 2015. She studied Nordic languages and Finnish at Stockholm University. She has been educated as a teacher, before she took a professional theatre and dance education at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in London, Tampere, Århus and Oslo.

She has experience from teaching and working with theatrical presentations. She has also been working as a free lance journalist and translated Saami writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Finnish-Estonian writer Aino Kallas with great success into New-Norwegian.

She turned ”Barbara von Tisenhusen” by Aino Kallas into a monologue to be performed in Oslo and Bergen. Her translation of Kallas' "Lasnamäen valkea laiva" (The White Ship) was nominated for the Bastian prize.