Lit in Translation

Matias Faldbakken

Born 1973 · Norway

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Brage 2022 · Shortlist

    Stakkar

    Title translated by AI:“Poor Thing”

    Matias Faldbakken · 49 when first published

    Novel · 183 pages · Coming of age, Love

    AI-generated summary:A lonely foster boy working for his keep on a farm finds a wild child in the forest, nearly without speech and stunted in growth, captures it and takes it home, where it begins to develop at furious speed.

  • In English

    Brage 2017 · Shortlist

    The Waiter

    The Hills

    Matias Faldbakken · 44 when first published

    Novel · 225 pages

    AI-generated summary:For thirteen years a discreet waiter has kept order at The Hills, a worn old-European restaurant in central Oslo, until a very young woman pushes her way in among the regulars.