Born 1944 · Norway
Brage 2014 · Shortlist
Kjartan Fløgstad · 70 when first published
Novel · 302 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:Three enigmatic women, marked for life by the years 1939–1942, link a story that runs from Narvik in the north to Spain under Franco.
Brage 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Northeast Passage”
Kjartan Fløgstad · 68 when first published
Novel · 424 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Two little boys are evacuated from the losing side of the Spanish Civil War. One ends up in the Soviet Union, the other in Mexico, and their lives run on from the same start.
Brage 2009 · Shortlist
Kjartan Fløgstad · 65 when first published
Novel · 435 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:Early in the 1930s two well-educated young Germans make a choice that takes them to Oslo, to Grense Jakobselv and across the border, and in the end to power over life and death.
Brage 2006 · Shortlist
Kjartan Fløgstad · 62 when first published
Novel · 410 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Five families in the industrial town of Sauda in western Norway in the 1950s, whose lives the novel follows out into the world and across the generations before returning to a café in the town.