Fløgstad, Kjartan

Norwegian author born in the industrial city of Sauda. He has worked at the smelting plant in Sauda and on a Norwegian cargo ship on which he travelled all over the world, especially South America. His experiences and impressions from this continent would later become highly significant to his work. (In 2004 Fløgstad received a Chilean arts award.) He briefly studied architecture at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, but he soon switched to literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Kjartan Fløgstad writes in Nynorsk Norwegian, he lives in Oslo and the journalist Aslak Nore is his son.