Lit in Translation

Dag Solstad

Born 1941 · Norway

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Brage 2013 · Shortlist

    Det uoppløselige episke element i Telemark i perioden 1591–1896

    Title translated by AI:“The Insoluble Epic Element in Telemark in the Period 1591–1896”

    Dag Solstad · 72 when first published

    Novel · 456 pages · Historical, Family

    AI-generated summary:The narrator follows his mother’s family, and the farms it was tied to in Telemark, through three hundred years, refusing to invent anything beyond what the sources say.

  • In English

    Brage 2006 · Winner

    Armand V.

    Armand V.

    Dag Solstad · 65 when first published

    Novel · 218 pages · Politics

    AI-generated summary:In the mid-1960s Armand and his best friend Paul Buer arrive in Oslo to study; Armand becomes a diplomat, outwardly loyal and inwardly not, in a novel made only of footnotes to an unwritten book.