Winner of the Riksmål Prize 2012

Terje Holtet Larsen (b. 1963) made his debut with the novel The Son in 1991. For the short story collection Variations (1995) he received the Gyldendal endowment. The novel The Dilettante (2012) received the Riksmål Literary Prize.

Since The Peer Gynt Version (2003) Larsen has been cultivating an inventive mix of fiction, autobiography and essay that owes as much to Vonnegut as it does to Borges.