Ketil Bjørnstad (b. 1952) is a musician, composer and writer. Versatile and prolific, he has published more than 30 books – poetry, novels and factual accounts of the lives of the painters Oda Krohg and Edvard Munch, the author Hans Jæger, the musician Ole Bull and the film artist Liv Ullmann. His new series The World I Used To Know has been sold in more than 160,000 copies in Norway so far.

“Meticulous research is presented with all the lyricism of a modernist musical style … Bjørnstad’s poetic prose has authority and beauty”. Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

“This writer obviously possesses every kind of talent possible”. Nils C. Ahl, Le Monde

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