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With his exberant imagination and joy o storytelling, Jostein Gaarder hasascinated an entire world. His many novels, which all pose central qestions abotmans place in the niverse, are read with the same interest all over the globe.

The sbjects he raises are niversal, and they interest people regardless o their

religios, cltral or ethnic backgrond.

In 1991, when Jostein Gaarder wrote Sophies World, he believed that a novel on the

history o philosophy wold appeal only to a specialist readersh ip. In 1995 the book

was the most sold novel in the world.

To date, Sophies World has been translated into 55 la ngages and has sold over

30 million copies. An nknown nmber o pirate editions also exist. Jostein

Gaarders other works both hi s childrens books and adlt novels have provedhgely poplar and been pblished in a host o contries.

Gaarders proond personal commitment and great nd o knowledge have

inspired readers all over the world to think a nd ask qestions abot orselves,or place in history, and the world arond s.

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Soes verden (Sophies World) 1991

Kabalmysteriet (The Solitaire Mystery) 1990

I et speil, i en gte (Throgh a Glass, Darkly) 1993

Appelsinpiken (The Orange Girl) 2003

Jlemysteriet (The Christmas Mystery) 1992

Diagnosen (The Diagnosis) 1986 1Vita Brevis (Vita Brevis) 1996

Maya (Maya) 1999 1

Sirksdirektrens datter (The Ringmasters Daghter) 2001

Barna ra Skhavati (The Children rom Skhavati) 1987 1

Froskeslottet (The Frog Castle) 1988 1

Bibbi Bokkens magiske bibliotek

(Bibbi Bokkens Magic Library) 1993 (with Klas Hagerp) 1

Hallo? Er det noen her? (Hello? Is There Anybody Here?) 1996 1

De gle dvergene (The Yellow Dwarves) 2006 1

Sjakk Matt (Checkmate) 2006Non-ction 1Bibliography and oreign sales Awards and Decorations 2


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An absorbing, original and ascinating book or anyone who is interested

in the history o or cltre, interwoven with the history o western philosophyand the imaginary story o Sophie and Hilde. In order to solve the mysteries that

are a part o Sophies world, we need an nderstanding o Eropean philosophy.

Who is Hilde Mller Knag? Why does Sophie keep coming across Hi ldes things?Why does she receive Hildes mail? The story ends in Hildes garden in the small

town o Lillesand on t he soth coast o Norway. Or does it? Perhaps this is whereit begins? Throgh her pe rsal o letters rom a mysterios philosopher,Alberto Knox, who introdces her to the ideas o Eropes great thinkers,

Sophie gradally acqires the k nowledge she needs to solve the mysteries

srronding her.

The book is a story or teenagers, a thriller and a history o philosophy all in one.

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The Solitaire Mystery is bilt p like a Chinese pzzle. The

rame story is abot twelve-year-old Hans Thomas who,with his ather, motors down throgh Erope in search

o his mother. She let the amily eight years beore in

order to search or hersel. On the way mysterios

things begin to happen: a dwar trns p and presentsHans Thomas with a magniying glass. The dwar gives

his ather directions to a small Alpine village, Dor,where Hans Thomas discovers the extraordinary Bn-book, a tiny book in the middle o one o the bns rom

the village bakery. Hans Thomas ses the magniying

glass to read the Bn-book, and this takes him back to

a shipwreck in 1790 and an island o living patiencecards. In a singlar way, the story in the Bn-book and

the trth Hans Thomas and his ather conront, are

bond together.

Cecilie is ill and has no chance o getting well. Everyone

is bsy celebrating Christmas, bt she is too weak to jointhem. She condes her thoghts to the Ch inese note-

book given to her by a doctor at the hospital. One day she

discovers that when she is alone in her room she can see

an angel. She and the angel, Ariel, begin to converse.Cecilie tries to indce the a ngel to reveal some o

Heavens secrets and Ariel tells her o l ies many pzzlesand abot the place o the world in t he grand scheme othings; in retrn, Cecilie teaches him what it is like to be

hman. The conversations between the two evolve into a

meeting between Heaven and Earth, into an attempt to

determine both what lie is all abot and what it is like and also abot what it is l ike on the other side.

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The Orange Girl

My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then,

I never thought Id hear from him again, but now werewriting a book together.

To Georg Red, his ather is no more than a shadow, a

distant memory. Bt then one day his grandmotherdiscovers some papers sted into the lining o an old

red pshchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, writtenjst beore his ather died, and a story, TheOrangeGirl.

Bt The Orange Girl is no ordinary story it is a riddle rom

the past centering arond an incident in his athers

yoth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivatedby a beatil girl standing in the aisle, cltching a hge

paper bag o lscios-looking oranges. Sddenly the

tram gave a jolt and he stmbled orward, sending the

oranges ying in all directions.

In an ot-o-the-way bookshop Joakim comes across a

magical Advent calendar, which e nables him to ollowElisabeths jorney to Bethlehem. Her odyssey, which

takes her throgh Erope and Asia Minor, is also a

jorney throgh history. Who has made this strange

calendar? Can it be the mysterios ower seller in themarketplace? Do the brie notes on the scraps o paper

inside the calendar reer to the Elisabeth who disap-peared rom the town many years ago? Perhaps. Btthere is another Elisabeth too, the one in the pictre

taken in ront o St Peters in Rome. Can it be the same

Elisabeth as the girl who got lost in the throng when

she and her mother were ot doing their Christmasshopping? On his jorney, which takes him a ll the way

back to the stable in Bethlehem, Joakim is introdced to

Eropean cltre and history. Ecclesiastical history is

interwoven with myths and legends, making the book aascinating read.

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The world is very old, they say. But it seldomlasts more than a hundred years. We are theones who grow old.

With these words Gaarder sets the tone or t he collection,which was his literary debt. The stories deal with

ordinary people who have been prooted rom their dailylives and pshed to the brink . The stories toch onexistential sbjects, qestions and ideas to which the

athor retrns in sbseqent novels.

The collection comprises eleven short stories.They are woven together by short, thoght-provoking

sketches.

This book may be regarded as a kind o overtre toGaarders sbseqent writing, even thogh the stories

have down-beat perspectives in shar p contrast to his

later novels.

In his Conessions the chrch ather, Agstine,

mentions that or many years he lived with a mistresswhom he loved deeply and who bore him h is one and

only child.

Their relationship ended when Agstine embarked on apios lie o celibacy or the sa ke o his sols salvation.

In Vita Brevis, which is sbtitled Floria Aemilias Letter toAurel Augustine, Jostein Gaarder has rnished thismistress with a n ame, a voice and a physical presence.

He calls her Floria Aemilia and pens the letters to

Agstine, jst as she might have written them ater

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The Diagnosis andOther Short Stories(Diagnosen og andre noveller)


In the rame story, Jostein Gaarder transports himsel to a

second-hand bookshop in Benos Aires where he nearths ashea o papers in handwritten Latin which may, he believes,

be the letters to the venerable chrch ather rom his ormer

mistress. Vita Brevis is Jostein Gaarders translation oFlorias letters to Agstine in which she chides hi m or his

aithless attitde to sensal love. Lie is too short, Floria says,

to sprn the beatil things o Gods creation, and she is

merciless in her criticism o Agstines chosen path anasterely God-earing one. This is an ardent book, and a ne

homage to worldly lie and love.


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How can two lovers be reconciled to a lost etern ity?

Frank, a Norwegian evoltionary biologist, isensconced in a hotel room in Madrid, where he is

writing a letter to his estranged wie, Vera, to tell her o

his meeting with a pecliar Spanish cople, Ana and

Jos. To make Vera nderstand how mch this enco-nter has meant to him, he has to begin by telling her

o the time he spent on Taveni in the Fiji Islands inJanary 1998.

The story really begins with the Big Bang, when the

niverse was created, bt it also begins with what Vera

wrote to Frank on a postcard rom Barcelona in 1992.Eqally, the story begins on the qayside in Cdiz one

winter day in 1790, when a ve-year-old boy sells a pack

A tatly written satire centred on mans ollies and

endring vanity, this book rther attests to JosteinGaarders command o bafing, cnningly contrived

intriges that lend themselves to a wide range o

interpretations. This time the protagonist is Petter, a

strange, riendless child who preers his own companyand his own imaginary world. Even when he grows p

his imagination contines to rn riot, bt he cannotbear the thoght o pblishing the stories he writesnder his own name. He abhors pblicity and being

made a ss o. Th is prompts him to lanch Athor

Aid, a scheme designed to provide stories or athors

sering rom writers block. Thogh highly sccesslat rst, it soon proves to be a death trap...


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when John loses Sheila and is no longer able to write. Gaarder askshimsel how it can take or billion years to create a hman being

bt only a ew seconds to die. How can people possibly reconcile

themselves to the thoght that lie wil l one day come to an end?He also wonders whether the process o evoltion that clminated

in hman consciosness was prely a matter o c hance. Maya is the

story o Adams lack o wonderment at his own existence.

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thread linking all o Jostein Gaarders works, and histreatment o niversal topics engages readers o all

ages. Now, to mark that 20 years have passed since

Gaarder made his debt as a writer o ction,

Aschehog Pblishing Hose has asked him toassemble a book o some o the highl ights o his

athorship.

Checkmate is a collection o riddles, airy-tales and

stories that demonstrates jst why Jostein Gaarders

books are read all over the world. It reveals the

depth and originality o books sch as The Diagnosis,

The Children rom Skhavati(Barna ra Skhavati)First published: 1987

In the land beyond everything, Skhavati, live the twins Lik andLak, a boy and a girl. They have never been born so they have nonavels. They want to travel to Earth and visit mankind. Finally,Lik and Lak are aced with the inhman choice between eternallie in Skhavati, or a mortal one on Earth.

CheckmateRiddles, airytales and stories.

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The Frog Palace(Froskeslottet)First published: 1988

This is the story o Kristoer Poer and his exciting adventresin a araway land somewhere beyond the arch o the sky. Imbedas it is with both hmor and wonder, the book plays delight-lly with words and phrases; bt it also deals with grie and

yearning in a warm and wise way.

Bibbi Bokkens Magic Library(Bibbi Bokkens magiske bibliotek)First published: 1993

W b J G K HpTheir qest or the magic library takes Nils and Berit on a jorneythrogh the world o books. It all began thosands o years agowhen written letters rst saw the light o day...

Hello? Is There Anybody Here?(Hallo? Er det noen her?)First published: 1996

The Yellow Dwarves(De gle dvergene)First published: 2006

Eight-year-old Joe is waiting alone at home or the birt h o his siblingwhen he sees something all rom the sky. Its Mika, rom the planetEljo, hanging by the seat o his pants in Joes apple tree. The impor-tance o qestioning everything, rom whats a pancake to religiosbelies, makes this gentle story n to read as well as eye-opening.

One day when Arild comes home rom school, the hose is empty.He goes ot into the streets, bt its dead qiet everywhere. No-oneto be seen; no sign o lie. Except a weird, little yellow creatre sittingon the kerb, throwing a dice and mmbling to himsel. Arild doesntknow it yet, bt this is the beginning o the strangest day o his lie.

The Solitaire Mystery, Sophies World, The Christmas Mystery,

Through a Glass, Darkly, Vita Brevis, Maya, The Ringmasters

Daughter and The Orange Girl. In addition there is a newly

written essay entitled IsConsciousness a Cosmic Coincidence? Forreaders who are new to Jostein Gaarder Checkmate can be read as

an introdction to his athorship; or al l those who have already

been enriched and enthsed by Gaarders literary niverseit will shed new light on amiliar passages.

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1982 Christianity(Kristendommen)By Victor Hellern, Henry Notaker and Jostein Gaarder. Gyldendal

The Worlds Religions(Verdens religioner)

By Victor Hellern, Henry Notaker and Jostein Gaarder. Gyldendal

1983 Allah Akbar God is the Greatest. A Book Abot Islam(Allah akbar Gd er strst. En bok om islam)By Jostein Gaarder and Inger Margrethe Gaarder. Cappelen

1984 The Philosophy o Lie and Ethics(Livssyn og etikk).By Victor Hellern, Henry Notaker and Jostein Gaarder. Gyldendal

1989 The Book o Religions. The Religions o the World.Christianity. The Philosophy o Lie and Ethics

(Religionsboken. Religionene i verden. Kristendommen. Livssyn og etikk).By Victor Hellern, Henry Notaker and Jostein Gaarder. Gyldendal

1990 Ethics and Philosophy o Lie in Social Science(Etikk og livssyn i samnnslre).

By Victor Hellern, Henry Notaker and Jostein Gaarder. Gyldendal

Diagnosen (The Diagnosis) 1986:

Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras),

Chinese - complex characters (Trimph Pblishing, Taipeh),

Dtch (Fontein), German (Hanser), Greek (Livani), Japanese (NHK - Pblishing),

Rssian (Amphora), Spanish (Sirela).

Barna ra Skhavati (The Children rom Skhavati) 1987:

Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Chinese (Trimph/Taipeh), Dtch ( Fontein),

Italian (Salani), Portgese (Presenca), Spanish (Sirela).

Froskeslottet (The Frog Castle) 1988:

Bengali (Shoishab), Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras),Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Czech (Eromedia), Chi nese (Trimph/Taipeh),

Danish (Hst & Sn) , Dtch (Fontein), English (Orion, London), Faroese (Bkadeildin),

German (Hanser), Italian (Salani), Japanese (NHK - Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam),

Portgese (Presenca), Rssian (Radga), Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren),Thai (Matichon).

Kabalmysteriet (The Solitaire Mystery) 1990:

Albanian (Onri), Arabic (Dar Al-Mna), Bengali (Shoishab),

Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), Catalan (Empries/Grp 62),Chinese - complex characters (Trimph Pblishing),

Chinese - simplied characters (Writers Pbl. Hose), Croatian (Znanje),

Czech (Albatros) , Danish (Hst & Sn), Dtch (Fontein),

English (Orion, London /Farrar, Stras & Girox, New York), Estonian (Koolibri),Faroese (Bkadeildin), Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil) , German (Hanser),

Georgian (Nectar), Greek (Livani), Hngarian (Pesti Szalon), Icelandic (Edda),

Italian (Salani), Hebrew (Schocken), Japanese (NHK - Pblishing) , Korean (Hyonam),Krdish (Avesta), Latvian (Zvaigzne), Polish (J. Sa ntorski), Portgese (Presenca),Romanian (Editra univers), Rssian (Amphora Pblishers), Slovak (Soa),

Slovenian (Zalozka Obzorja), Serbian (Geopoetika) , Spanish (Sir ela),

Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren), Thai (Ran Boon), Trkish (Pan).

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Soes verden (Sophies World) 1991:

Albanian (Onri), American English (Farrar, Stras & Girox), Arabic (Dar Al-Mna),

Armenian (Zangak-97), Bengali (Shandesh), Blgarian (Danyam Yakov),

Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), British English (Orion Books),

Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Chinese - simpli ed characters (The Writers Pblishing Hose),Chinese - complex characters (Trimph) , Croatian (Znanje), Czech (Albatros),

Danish (Hst & Sn), Dtch (Fontein), Estonian (Koolibri), Faroese (Bkadeildin),

Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil), Georgian (Slakari), German (Carl Hanser Verlag),

Greenlandic (Atakkiork), Greek (Livani), Hebrew (Schocken), Hindi (Rajkamal Prakashan),Hngarian (Magyar Knyvklb), Icelandic (Edda), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Longanesi),

Japanese (NHK-Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam), Latvian (Zvaigzne), Lithanian (Tyto Alba),Macedonian (Tri Pblishing Centre), Malay (Institt Terjemahan Negara Malaysia),Malayalam (DC Books), Persian (Manoocher), Polish (J. Santorski), Portgese (Presenca),

Romanian (Ed. univers), Rssian (Amphora), Saami (Davvi Girji), Serbian (Geopoetika),

Sinhalese (Vidarshana), Slovak (Soa), Slovenian (Zalozba),

Spanish (Sirela, Madrid /Editorial Patria, C. Mexico, Ediciones Especiales/Cba),Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren), Swahili (Mkki na Nyota), Thai (Kobai), Tigrinya (Hdri Pbl.),

Trkish (Pan), ukrainian (Litopys), urd, Vietnamese (Ho Chi Minh-Citys Pblishers and

Alpha Books). Adapted into lms, theater plays and msicals.

Jlemysteriet (The Christmas Mystery) 1992:

Bengali (Shoishab), Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), Catalan (Empries/Grp 62),

Chinese - complex characters (China Times Pbl., Taipeh),

Czech (Karmelitanske Naklaadatelstvi), Danish (Hst & Sn), Dtch (Fontein),

English (Orion, London/Farrar, Stras & Girox, New York), Estonian (Snday School union),Faroese (Bkadeildin), Finnish (Tammi), Georgian, German (Hanser), Greek (Livani),

Hngarian (Magyar Knyvklb), Italian (Salani) , Japanese (NHK - Pblishing),

Latvian (Nordik), Polish (J. Santorski), Portgese (Presenca), Romanian (Ed. univers),

Rssian (Radga and Amphora), Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren),Thai (Komol Keenthong).

Bibbi Bokkens magiske bibliotek(Bibbi Bokkens Magic Library) (with Klas Hagerp) 1993:

Brazilian Portgese (Companh ia Das Letras), Catalan ( Empries/Grp 62), Dtch (Fontein),

German (Carl Hanser Verlag), Greek (Livani), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (LOnganesi, Milan),

Japanese (NHK - Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam), Polish (J. Santorski),

Portgese (Presenca), Spanish (Sirela).

I et speil, i en gte (Throgh a Glass, Darkly) 1993:

Albanian (Onri), Brazilian Portgese (Compania Das Letras), Bengali (Shoishab),

Chinese - complex characters (Trimph Pblishing), Danish (Hst & Sn),

English (Orion Books), Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Czech (Albatros), Dtch (Fontein),

Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil), German (Carl Hanser Verlag), Greek (Livani),Hngarian (Anims), Icelandic (Edda), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Salani),

Japanese (NHK - Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam), Polish (J. Santorsk,i),

Portgese (Presenca), Romanian ( Ed. univers), Rssian (Amphora), Serbian (Fidelis),

Slovak (Soa), Slovenian (ValeNovak), Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren),Thai (Komol Keenthong), Trkish (Pan), ukrainian (Litopys).

Film option sold to Zentropa Film, Denmark.

Vita Brevis 1996:

Albanian (Onri), American English (Farrar, Stras & Girox),Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), British English (Orion Books),

Blgarian (Hems), Catalan ( Empries/Grp 62),

Chinese complex characters (Trimph Pblishing), Czech (Odeon),

Danish (Hst & Sn), Dtch (Fontein), Estonian (Kpar), Finnish (Tammi),French (Seil), Georgian (Nectar Pblishing), German (Carl Hanser Verlag),

Greek (Livani), Hngarian (Park Pblishing), Icelandic (Edda), Italian (Longanesi),

Japanese (NHK-Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam), Polish (J. Santorski),Portgese (Presenca), Rssian (Amphora), Serbian (Geopoetika), Slovak (Soa),

Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren), Thai (Matichon), Trkish (Pan),

ukrainian (Litopys).

Maya 1999:

Bengali, Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), English (Orion),Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Chinese - complex characters (Trimph Pblishing),

Chinese - simplied characters (Writers Pbl. Hose), Croatian (Znanje),

Danish (Form), Dtch (Fontein), Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil),Georgian (Nectar Pblishing), German (Hanser), Greek (Livani), Hebrew (Schocken),Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Longanesi), Japanese (NHK - Pblishing),

Korean (Hyonam), Lithanian (Vaga), Polish (J. Santorski), Portgese (Presenca),

Serbian (Geopoetika), Slovak (Soa), Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Norstedts),Trkish (Pan).


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1990

The Norwegian Ministry o Cltral Aairs awardor The Solitary Mystery

The Critics Prize or books or children

and yong adlts or The Solitary Mystery

1991

Sonja Hagemanns prize or childre ns books

or Sophies World

1993

The School Librarians union Literatre Prize

or The Solitary Mystery, Sophies World and

The Christmas Mystery

LuCHS 84 or Sophies World (a German prizeawarded by Die Zeit)

La Menzione in Premio Eropea di Letteratra

Giovanile or The Solitary Mystery (Italy)

1994

Detscher Jgendliteratrpreis or Sophies World Fortna bookstores honorary award

Wettergrens Childrens Book Acorn or the

athorship (Sweden)

1995

The Bancarella Award or Sophies World (Italy)

The Flaiano Award or Sophies World (Italy) La Vangardia Award or Sophies World (Spain)

Sirksdirektrens datter (The Ringmasters Daghter) 2001:

Albanian (Onri) Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras), Catalan (Empries/Grp 62),

Chinese (Trimph), Czech ( Eromedia), Danish (Form), Dtch (Signatre), English (Orion),

Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil), German (Hanser), Greek (Livani), Hebrew (Kinneret-Zmora),

Hngarian (Magyarknyklb), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Longanesi) ,Japanese (NHK -Pblishing), Korean (Ire Pblishing), Latvia n (Apgads Atena),

Lithanian (Alma Littera), Polish (J. Santorski), Portgese (Presenca),

Rssian (Amphora Pblishers), Serbian (Geopoetika), Slovak (Soa), Spanish (Sirela),

Swedish (Norstedts), Trkish (Pan).Film option sold to Kristine Kndsen and Tom Streber, Germany.

Appelsinpiken (The Orange Girl) 2003:

Albanian (Onri), Arabic (Dar Al-Mna), Brazilian Portgese (Companhia Das Letras),

Bengali (Sandesh), Catalan (Empries/Grp 62), Chinese- simplied characters (Jieli Pblishers),Chinese - complex charcaters (Trimph), Croatian (Znanje), Czech (Albatros),

Danish (Form), Dtch (Signatre), English (Orion), Estonian (Koolibri),

Faroese (Bkadeildin), Finnish (Tammi), French (Seil), Georgian (Nectar Pbl.),

German (Carl Hanser Verlag), Greek (Livani), Hebrew (Kinneret/Zmora), Hindi (Rajkamal Prakashan),Hngarian (Anims), Icelandic (Edda), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Longanesi),

Japanese (NHK- Pblishing), Korean (Hyonam), Latvian (Zvaigzne), Lithanian (Alma Litera),

Macedonian (TRI Pblishing Centre), Malay (ITNMB), Polish (J. Santorski), Portgese (Presenca),Romanian (Ed. univers), Rssian (Amphora), Serbian (Geopoetika), Slovenian (ValeNovak),

Spanish (Sirela), Swedish (Rabn & Sjgren), Thai (Matichon), Trkish (Pan), ukrainian (Litopys).

Film option sold to Aksel Helgeland A S, Norway.

Sjakk Matt (Checkmate) 2006:

German (Carl Hanser Verlag), Indonesian (Mizan), Italian (Longanesi),Korean (Hyonam), Spanish (Sirela).

De gle dvergene (The Yellow Dwarves) 2006:

Danish (Form), German (Hanser), Polish (Santorski), Spanish (Sirela)

Awards and Decorations

1996

Elected the Peer Gynt o the year by theNorwegian Parliament

Bxtehder Blle, Jgendbchpreis or T

a Glass, Darkly (Germany)

El Arcebispo Jan de San Clementes PrizLiteratre or Sophies World (Spain)

International Board on Books or Yong P

Polish division, or The Solitary Mystery

Le Prix des Libraires or Sophies World (C

1997

Bergen International Festival Poet

Jgendbchpreis, Jry der jngen Leser,

or Throgh a Glass, Darkly, (Astria)

Premio Internazionale Fregene orThe Christmas Mystery (Italy)

Premi de Literatra Protagonista Jove,

or The Solitary Mystery, (Catalonia, Spai

2002

The Brage Honorary Prize, or the athors

2003

Norwegian Langage Prize or The Orang

2004

The Willy Brandt Prize

2005

Appointed Commander o the Royal NorwSaint Olavs Order

Awarded an Honorary Degree at Trinity C

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