Roy Jacobsen

Books on prize lists

• De usynlige

  In English

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  International Booker 2017 · Shortlist

  The Unseen

  De usynlige

  Roy Jacobsen · 59 when first published

  Novel · 244 pages · Family, Historical

  Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw

  AIAI-generated summary:On a tiny island far out off Norway's Helgeland coast, Ingrid grows up in the Barrøy family between 1913 and 1928, in a world of fish, storms and poverty that she knows as her own.

• Vidunderbarn

  In English

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  Brage 2009 · Shortlist

  Child Wonder

  Vidunderbarn

  Roy Jacobsen · 55 when first published

  Novel · 263 pages · Family, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Finn lives alone with his mother in a block of flats in Oslo in the year of the Berlin Wall and Gagarin, until a mysterious little half-sister arrives on the bus with a light-blue suitcase.

• Frost

  No English yet

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  Brage 2003 · Shortlist

  Frost

  Roy Jacobsen · 49 when first published

  Novel · 494 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Gest, an Icelander born in 993, is outlawed at thirteen after avenging his father by killing one of Iceland’s mightiest chieftains, and flees to Norway with the wild man Teitr.