| Date of Birth | 26-December-1954 | |
| Place of Birth |
Oslo (Norway) |
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| Nationality | Norway | |
| Profession | Writer, Novelist | |
| Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv, which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene in 1991 and Frost in 2004. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles was published in Britain in 2008. Jacobsen lives in Oslo. | ||
Awards by Roy Jacobsen |
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1989
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