Aschehoug Debutant Award 1998

Anders Jahre’s Award 2004

Nominated to The Norwegian Book Award Brageprisen and the P2 Listener’s Novel Award.

Bjarte Breiteig (b.1974) made his debut with the short story collection Fantomsmerter (1998) which received glowing reviews and immediately established Breiteig as one of our strongest literary voices, a position that has been strenghtened with each of his later works of short stories.

In 2003 Breiteig was one of five young authors whose work was included in a collection of short stories published under the title of Borders by the European literary project Scritture Giovani. Each writer’s contribution appears in five languages: Welsh, German, English, Norwegian and Italian. His work was featured in Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction 2012. So far, Breiteig’s books have been translated to German, French and Czech.

Praise for Five Years as a Father:

“a masterpiece of a novel” Fædrelandsvennen.

“a stellar first novel from an already celebrated short story writer” Dagsavisen

“an extremely well-written text” Dagbladet