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Roy Jacobsen (born 26 December 1954) is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life), which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He is the winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for The ...
- An Island Off The Coast of Norway
- My Mother, My Grandfather, The Sea
- Isolation and Stability
- The 'Untold' Story of The MS Rigel
"I felt an obligation to the island of Barrøy: this is my heritage. These are the stories that I grew up with. My mother came from a somewhat bigger island, but in the vicinity of this one. I spent every summer up there, watching this strange life: people living on small islands, one family on each of them, and struggling with nature. I got fascina...
"The farm where my mother grew up had no roads. My grandfather was a hero for a little boy like me. I would watch and study my grandfather, who had sired 18 children on this tiny piece of land on the seashore. I would listen to him. He didn't say very much. He had one eye. He was always working. He was a very, very interesting person. He died, unfo...
"In The Unseen, life on the island is idyllic, but it is also very terrible. The contrasts are very important, between the most beautiful and the most terrible. The family is isolated, taking care of each other, and Ingrid is growing up. "This is a coming-of-age story. She's learning, day by day, to manage and to survive in these circumstances, unt...
"In fall of 1944, Norway was occupied by the Germans. They were fighting the Russians in the northern part of Norway. They were about to evacuate this front after Normandy, after the Russians moved toward Berlin. "They were about to evacuate the whole military machinery from the port in the northern part of Norway, which included the MS Rigel, a ba...
May 12, 2017 · Shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize, The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book. The Unseen, by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, Maclehose Press, RRP£14.99, 268...
Born in 1954, Roy Jacobsen grew up in the working-class suburbs of Oslo and on his mother’s homestead in Nordland, a county in the north of Norway. He started publishing fiction in 1982. Over the past decade, he has enjoyed prize-winning acclaim for his series of novels set around the rugged islands and coastlines of Helgeland in southern ...
Roy Jacobsen was born in 1954 in Oslo, growing up in the Groruddalen susburb of Oslo. As a teenager he was a member of a criminal gang and was arrested and convicted of weapons offences and theft. He worked at various jobs before he published his first collection of stories Fangeliv (Prison Life).
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Mar 26, 2020 · The Unseen. Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies.
