Dag Solstad

Dag Solstad was born on 16 July 1941 in Sandefjord. Briefly a schoolteacher and journalist, he lived by his pen from 1966. A member in the 1970s of a Maoist communist party, he was the only writer three times awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize; he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1989 and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2017. Son-in-law of Jens Bjørneboe through his marriage of 1995, he died on 14 March 2025.

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• NovelShyness and DignityGenanse og verdighetDag Solstad · 1994Literature