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Information in English Facts
about the author
I
was born in 1977 in the city of Bodø. I now live in
Tromsø. Hold an arts degree encompassing literary history,
theater history, general history and the creative writing seminar of the
University of Tromsø. I am married and have one
child. I work fulltime as a writer, and besides writing books, I also do screenwriting. I also teach creative writing and do public
readings of my books. Bibliography There's a terrorist in my bunker bead (En terrorist i senga), 2008
At last Adrian has found a friend – Ali. Ali has amnesia and can’t remember where he’s from or who he is. But little by little Adrian starts suspecting that Ali is in fact a terrorist. And soon it will be Christmas. If Ali doesn’t blow up the entire airport, that is ...
Pitbull-Terje
turns evil (Pitbull-Terje blir ond), 2007
Everything has changed now that Jim is in the seventh grade. He was never really Kari’s boyfriend, but now they hardly even talk. To make matters worse, Jim is worried about Terje, who has begun disappearing at recess to hang out in the “smokers’ corner”. Terje starts missing class, and when Jim sees him outside the kiosk with troublemaker Ben-Ronny and his gang, Jim becomes increasingly worried that Terje is straying from the straight and narrow; maybe he’ll never return? Awarded with Uprisen 2008, a prize from young adult readers Pitbull-Terje
and the Fight Against the Child Care Department (Pitbull-Terje og kampen
mot barnevernet), 2006
ARKs barnebokpris Shortlisted for Brageprisen
There
is no end (Det tar ikke slutt), 2005
Brage wants so much to do the right thing, but he has a personal involvement in the conflict. Figures from his childhood - the Norwegian Serb Alex and the Kosovo Albanian Ismail - reappear in his life and his conscience is troubled. The writer takes us down the corridors of power where decisions are taken, sometimes on shaky grounds. There is No End is about the need for us to commit ourselves, and it shows how difficult it is to take sides.
Jaws - escape from
Wilderness Zoo (Jafs – Flukten fra Villmarka Zoo), 2004
The book was published
in April 2004.
Nothing's gonna stop
me now (Ingen kan stoppe meg no), 2003
The novel won Havmannprisen 2003, a prize for the best North-Norwegian novel. Pitbull-Terje Runs Amok (Pitbull-Terje går
amok), 2002
The book won the Ministry of Cultures prize for
the best children’s book of the year. It has been translated to German,
Danish, Dutch and Swedish.
Stranded in Paradise
(Strandet i paradis), 2000
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The
third book about the strange friendship between Jim and Terje.
This
is the sequel to Pitbull-Terje Runs Amok, and we are reacquainted
with Terje and his buddy Jim. The two friends have just turned thirteen,
and they should really be concentrating on being teenagers with hormones
in turmoil, and nothing else. But, as we all know, there is this issue
with Jim’s mother and Terje’s daddy. The kids feel that they should
put their parents back on the right track, before their own teenage years
can start for real – and if this is not done, not a single girl will
cast a second glance at them. And the Child Care Departments people are
luring in the shadows...
It
is March 1999 and NATO is about to bomb Yugoslavia. Brage Olsen is the
socialist party’s representative in Norwegian Parliament, and he voted
in favour of the bombing. But did he make the right choice?
The story is about a
Cuban Amazon parrot called Castro. He is searching for his brother,
which he hasn't seen since he was a baby parrot. Castro sees his brother
on TV in reportage from a zoo - and he flies to the zoo to help him escape.
Though, he can't find his brother, but he finds a wolverine
called Jippi. She is about to eat him, but when she hears his story, she
suggests a deal: if Castro also can help her to escape, she will
not eat him. The only way to escape is by digging a tunnel under the
fences. Therefore they need help from very reluctant mole
Mogens. Castro must unite not only these very different animals, but he
suddenly finds his brother - disguised as a cock, living together
with two hens. The really big problem is how to unite all these animals in
a common escape.
We are in Bodø, in
northern Norway, in 1987. Stian, eleven, is waiting together with his
little sister Sara for their father to return from a course he has been
attending in Oslo. But Daddy doesn’t turn up. Mother sits drinking one
glass of wine after another and stays up late into the night, phoning
people and insisting that she is not embittered. Stian finds her behavior
disgusting. He wants to go to his father. Once he finds Daddy, all will be
well.
We are introduced to
three bosom pals, Jim, Kurt and Roger. Jim's mother suffers from anxiety.
Jim has a secret retreat, an underground bunker of which even the two
friends Kurt and Roger are unaware. One day a new boy joins their class, a
huge, dangerous lad who calls himself Pitbull-Terje. Pitbull-Terje decides
that he and Jim are going to be best friends: "If not, I'll beat you
up," he says menacingly.
Produced by
Norwegian Broadcasting Radio (NRK) in 2000. It has also been published in
a book. The story is about two people, a woman and a man, wretched on a
desert island after a plane crash. They have been there for a long time,
so the hope for rescuing is very low. They did not know each other before
the plane crash, but in need of someone to care for and be loved by, they
have started a relationship. The play is really more about difficulties
in a relationship between man and woman, than about the life on a
desert island.