According to the National Register, Solstad died on Friday. The publisher October also confirms the death in a press release. – Dag Solstad died on Friday night March 14 of the heart after a short hospital stay with his wife say Therese Bjørneboe by the side. Solstad was one of the most important novelists of our time in Norway. He was best known for his novels, but also wrote essay and articles. In addition, he wrote more reporting books on the World Cup in football with colleague Jon Michelet. The famous author died on Friday night March 14. He was 83 years old. – It is impossible to see Norwegian literature without Dag Solstad. His books are enthusiastic and surprised readers for sixty years, and gong in time renewed and expanded him the romance genre, says publishing manager Ingeri Engelstad. He will be deeply missed, says Engelstad. – He made his strong mark on Norwegian literature and Norwegian literary publicity, he was a power center for the publisher October and for Norwegian literature. Dag Solstad and Jon Michelet published six reporting books from the World Cup. The last came in 2014. Then Morten Pedersen and Tom Stalsberg also joined the team. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Solstad debuted in 1965 with the short story collection “Spirals”. Two years later came the short prose collection “Swing chair”, before his debut with “Irr! Green! ” In 1969. From 1966 he was part of the editorial board that published the radical journal profile together with, among others, Jan Erik Vold and Espen Haavardsholm. Dag Solstad born in Sandefjord July 16, 1941. Best known for his novels, but has also published articles, short stories and reporting books. Study idea history at the University of Oslo in 1966, before becoming a writer in full time. Was part of the crash around the radical journal profile. – Unique ability to renew for just a little over a month ago Solstad published a new work. news’s literature message Knut Hoem gave the book dice at the top level. – For anyone who is genuinely concerned with literature, including me, this is a very sad day, Hoem tells news. – But his authorship lives on to those degrees. There are so many hidden treasures that new generations will re -discover. Literature critic Knut Hoem. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Hoem says Solstad has been tone in the whole since he first debuted. – He has a completely unique ability to renew himself, about a quarter of a decade. In the sex, he wrote experimental, playful modernism. In the seventies he was completely politically and changed style. Hoem describes Solstad as the largest author of his generation. He himself has been hooked since he read the novel “1987” in high school. – When it comes to the level of this authorship, one should look for a long time to find anyone who does not think he is the biggest author through Norwegian times. news’s cultural commentator Inger Merete Hobbelstad says Norway has lost its most prominent and sheltered authors – and his most faithful follow -up. Cultural commentator in news, Inger Merete Hobbelstad. Photo: Jon Petrusson / news-For decades after decades, Dag Solstad fell into postwar Norway, through various genres and unforgettable protagonists. There, the political lived with the eyes of the strained and trembling situations, where pride and uncertain low and quarrel. – No one was like he was Minister of Culture Lubna Jaffrey says the death is a huge loss. – He was, in the opinion of many, Norway’s foremost writer and a friend I have known for more than thirty years, he writes on Facebook. Jaffrey writes Solstad has seen deep tracks since the start, both as a writer and a human being. Culture Minister Lubna Jaffrey. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB-Nobody was like him. Lesa Solstad provides an experience that does not resemble anything else. – Norway and the publisher have lost one of our foremost writers, but the loss is of course greatest for the family. Me think about them now. Coming another book Solstad’s latest book is not published yet. It comes in 2025. Originally Solstad wanted to announce 20 years after his death. Then he changed his mind. Now it comes posthumous anyway. To news, author Jan Kjærstad says that one has always had to relate to Solstad’s books. – It’s a big compliment. Most authorship goes into one ear and out the other. When a new day is coming, he reads a new day. Here are things that start thoughts in you, who quess you. You can never be sure what happens to a writer’s books in the future. According to Kjærstad, someone is all too fast. – When it comes to Dag Solstad, I’m pretty sure his authorship is of such a high karat that he is coming back. It is going to be remembered, read, discussed and talked about a very long time. Worker poems and social realism The literature of Solstad lay close to contemporary, and changed the style for a quarter of a decade he wrote. In the 1970s he became like a number of other Norwegian authors a member of the AKP (ML). He began to write social -realistic novels, depicting the work of the working class in the post -war period. Dag Solstad in 1982. Photo: Bjørn Sigurdsøn / NTB At the beginning of the 1980s, communism is about to fade, and Solstad publishes novels where the protagonists look back on the time as a member of the AKP (ML), and about everything that was not the way one had intended. Disillusioned men In the 1990s, authorship takes a new turn. Several of Solstad’s most famous books came during this period. Common to many of these books is that the actions are cracking around a single event. As in “Genance and Dignity” from 1994, where lecturer Elias Rukla is unable to look up his umbrella in the schoolyard. The Book Club Kåra “Genance and Dignity” for the Best novel of the 1990s in 2007. The novels were also more experimental in the form than earlier periods. Dag Solstad’s novels Irr! Green! (1969) Arild Asnes, 1970 (1971) September 25th (1974) Fraud. Pre -war (1977) War. 1940 (1978) Bread and weapons (1980) Gymnasium teacher Pedersen’s account of the great political revival that has haunted Vårt Land (1982) Attempts to describe the impenetrable (1984) novel 1987 (1987) The front of the medal. A novel about Aker (1990) eleventh novel, book eighteen (1992) Genance and dignity (1994) Professor Andersen’s Night (1996) T. Singer (1999) 16.07.41 (2002) Armand V. Footnotes to an unpublished Roman (2006) 17.1111111111.111.111 Whether Bjørn Hansen (2019) was appreciated Solstad has received a number of excerpts for his books. Among other things, he has received the Critic Prize three gongs. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1989 for the novel “Roman 1987”. In 2006, Dag Solstad Brage Prize for the novel “Armand V. Footnotes for an unreleased novel”. He also received the Bragepris’s heathen prize in 1998. 2011, Solstad was awarded the state’s honorary salary. Published 15.03.2025, at. 12.14 Updated 15.03.2025, at. 13.11
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