Background
Kjartan Floegstad was born on June 7, 1944 in Sauda, Rogaland, Norway to the family of an industrial worker Klaus Floegstad and a homemaker Margrit Floegstad.
Kjartan Floegstad
Kjartan Floegstad graduated from the University of Oslo with Master of Arts degree in 1971.
Kjartan Floegstad studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen in 1965-1967.
Kjartan Floegstad graduated from the University of Oslo with Master of Arts degree in 1971.
Kjartan Floegstad studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen in 1965-1967.
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Selmer Hoysand leaves his family's small farm and finds work in a factory, in a novel chronicling Norway's transition from a predominantly rural, pastoral society to an industrialized welfare state.
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1992
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1998
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Kjartan Floegstad was born on June 7, 1944 in Sauda, Rogaland, Norway to the family of an industrial worker Klaus Floegstad and a homemaker Margrit Floegstad.
Kjartan Floegstad studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen in 1965-1967. He graduated from the University of Oslo with Master of Arts degree in 1971.
Before Kjartan became a successful writer, Floegstad worked as a sailor, industrial worker, and a reader for a publishing house. He debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled Valfart (Pilgrimage) in 1968. Floegstad has not confined himself to fiction; his first published book was the 1968 poetry volume Valfart. He has also published collections of his essays, as well as works of biography and travel. In addition, he has translated the works of writers from other cultures, including Pablo Neruda, into Norwegian. One of Floegstad's own novels, 1977's Dalen Portland, was translated into English by Nadia Christensen as Dollar Road. Actually, the novel Dalen Portland was his first literary success. He received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for it. From 1986 onwards, most of Floegstad's were released. In this period he published six novels, as well as two crime novels, for which he used the pseudonym Kjartan Villun.
Kjartan Floegstad has won several literary awards in his native land. His novel Dollar Road managed to achieve international recognition and was translated into several other languages, just as a number of other his novels. He also was awarded the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins, the highest Chile civilian honor awarded to non-Chilean citizens.
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1977Floegstad's novels, including crime fiction, often have socialist themes.
Before he became a successful writer, Floegstad was a blue-collar worker and a sailor. He remained sympathetic to the working class in his writings, which, as one critic pointed out, were also fantastical and experimental.
Kjartan Floegstad married a physician Anne K. Nore in 1977. They have two children: Aslak and Guro.
