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Dag Solstad (born 16 July 1941) is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He has written nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times.
A literary provocateur and a national icon, an experimental writer who is also a favorite with the country’s top comedians, Dag Solstad’s belated international breakthrough is in curious contrast to his position in his native country.
Dag Solstad debuterte med novellesamlingen Spiraler i 1965. En novelle hvor man møter fremmedgjorte mennesker som lengter etter noe egentlig, men som opplever tilværelsen som mer eller mindre uegentlig eller absurd.
Apr 19, 2024 · Dag Solstad (born July 16, 1941, Sandefjord, Norway) is a novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist, one of the most significant Norwegian writers to emerge during the 1960s. Solstad began his career as a writer of short experimental fictions that investigated the themes of identity and alienation: Spiraler (1965; “Spirals”) and Svingstol ...
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Dag Solstad is one of the most recognized Norwegian writers of our time. His debut was in 1965 with the short story collection "Spiraler" (Spirals). His first novel, "Irr! Grønt!", was published four years later. His books have been translated into 30 different languages.
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Interview with Dag Solstad. According to some, Dag Solstad, who was born in Sandefjord in 1941, is Norway’s pre-eminent living novelist. From 1969’s Patina! Green! to The Insoluble Epic Element in Telemark over the Years 1592–1896, published in 2013 (both books remain untranslated into English), his reputation in Norway has not so much ...
Dag Solstad (b. 1941) has written nearly thirty books, including Professor Andersen’s Night and Novel 11, Book 18 (forthcoming from New Directions). Admired worldwide by writers as diverse as Peter Handke and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Solstad has won the 2006 Brage Prize, the 1989 Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature, and the Norwegian Critics ...
