Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer, winner of the distinguished Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, and a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. His most recent novel, The Unseen, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize
Interviews with Roy Jacobsen
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1
Gisli Sursson’s Saga
by Various -
2
Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
3
Shyness and Dignity
by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
4
Beatles
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Lars Saabye Christensen -
5
My Struggle
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Karl Ove Knausgård
Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen
Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen
Sagas old and new, from Gisli Sursson’s trials to Knausgård’s struggle, form the backbone of Roy Jacobsen’s selection of essential fiction from Norway, a country that is like ‘a black and not very polished diamond’, and where writers and readers seek out the human, ‘no matter how awkward, grandiose, sentimental, nostalgic, embarrassing, hyperbolic, stupid, hilarious or dangerous it may be’
