Norwegian and Danish author who made his début in 1976 with a collection of poems Historien om Gly, which won the Tarjei Vesaas debutantpris prize for that years best Norwegian literary début. He has written numerous poems and plays, and several film scripts, but is best known as a novelist. Among his most noted works are the novels Beatles (1984), for which he won the Cappelen Prize, and Halvbroren (The Half Brother, 2001), for which he won the Brage Prize, two other Norwegian literary awards, and The Nordic Councils Literature Prize, and which was shortlisted for the 2005 International Dublin Literary Award. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less