Lars Amund Vaage
Lars Amund Vaage was born in 1952 on the west coast of Norway, and studied classical piano at the Bergen Music Conservatory. He made his literary debut in 1979 with the novel Exercise Cold Winter, and has since published award-winning novels, short stories, poetry and an essay collection.
In 1995 he had a definitive breakthrough in Norway with the Critics’ Prize-winning novel Rubato. In 2012, his acclaimed novel Sing, based on his experience of being the parent of a severely autistic child, was a national bestseller, winning the national Brage Prize and being nominated for the Critics’ Prize, as well as for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize and the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize.
Vaage has received a number of prizes for his body of work, including the prestigious Gyldendal Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Aschehoug Prize.
In its grounds the jury for the Aschehoug prize said that Vaage is an ”unusually refined literary artist, sensously symbolic, concrete and succinct, and with something as rare as a loving irony”.
“an extremely elegant, wise and challenging storyteller”
(Stavanger Aftenblad)
- The Unfinished House
- Det uferdige huset
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2020
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- The Little Pianist
- Den vesle pianisten
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2017
Fiction, Short stories
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- Sorrow and Song – Thoughts on Telling a Story
- Sorg og song- Tankar om forteljing
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2016
Essays
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- The Red Place
- Den raude staden
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2014
Poems
- LanguageForeign publisher
- World EnglishShearsman
- Sing
- Syngja
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2012
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- IcelandicSkuggi
- SwedishTrolltrumma film och förlag
- The Shadow And The Queen
- Skuggen og dronninga
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2011
Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- Outside the Institution
- Utanfor institusjonen
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2006
Poems
- LanguageForeign publisher
- HindiVani Prakashan
- SwedishTrolltrumma film och förlag
- World EnglishShearsman
- The Piano Keys
- Tangentane
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2005
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- The Art of Walking
- Kunsten å gå
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2002
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- GermanPforte
- The Other Room
- Det andre rommet
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 2001
Fiction, Poems
- LanguageForeign publisher
- World EnglishShearsman
- The Strange City
- Den framande byen
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 1999
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——
- Rubato
- Rubato
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 1995
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- GermanUllstein, Berlin
- PolishProszynski i S-Ka
- SwedishTrolltrumma film och förlag
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma
- Lars Amund Vaage
- Forlaget Oktober, 1992
Fiction, Novel
- LanguageForeign publisher
- ——