Jubilarer, 21 September
Lars Saabye Christensen
Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway, two places he keeps returning to in his books. Christensen read Norwegian, literature, history of ideas and art at university. He now lives in Oslo.
Lars Saabye Christensen is committed to help promote new talent in Norway. Between 1986 and the early nineties, he edited the annual anthology Signaler. He is also a musician who has toured with the group Norsk utflykt and...
Jubilarer, 21 September
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to by cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his adopted older brother David. While his family moved between Maine, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Indiana...
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Amerikansk litteratur
Av: Claes-Göran Holmberg
Nytt & omarbetat
Augusti 2024
Av: Redaktionen
Månadens nya och omarbetade artiklar.
