Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad | |
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Solstad in 2010 | |
| Born | 16 July 1941 Sandefjord, Reichskommissariat Norwegen |
| Died | 14 March 2025 (aged 83) |
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| Relatives | Jens Bjørneboe (father-in-law) |
Dag Solstad (16 July 1941 – 14 March 2025) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages.
Solstad wrote nearly 30 books and was the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. Other awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V.