The Bonnier Prize 2024 The Aschehoug Prize 2009 The Dobloug Prize 2009
The Critics’ Prize 2005
The Sult Award 2000
“For me, Thure Erik Lund is the greatest Norwegian contemporary writer. He is so innovative, his prose is so alive, he is the most vital writer I know. “
– Karl Ove Knausgård, Vagant, 2023
Thure Erik Lund (b. 1959) is one of Norway’s most innovative and highly acclaimed authors. He made his debut in 1992 with the novel Tangiers, for which he received the Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Prize. His next book, The Apartment Block (1994), was the Norwegian winner in the Scandinavian competition for best contemporary novel.
Later books have cemented Lund’s position as one of Norway’s most exciting contemporary authors. The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch (1999), the first book about Thomas Myrbråten, earned the author the prestigious Sult Prize. The novel Compromateria (2002) added new dimensions to the author’s growth and showed that he can write superb social and cultural critical fable prose. The Elvesteng People (2003) was also received with fantastic reviews. The fourth and final book in this novel cycle, Uranophilia, was awarded the Natt&Dag’s Oslo Prize 2005 for Book of the Year and the Critics’ Prize 2005.
In 2006, the novel In was published. Straahlbox (2010) was nominated for the Brage Prize. In 2013, In and Straahlbox were published in an expanded and combined edition In the Shadow of Singularity.
In 2011, the novel A Sad and Stupid Story was published, followed in 2017 by the highly acclaimed novel Identity. The sequel, Vertebrae, was published in 2023.
In addition to his 13 novels, Thure Erik Lund has written five essay collections.
The author was awarded the Dobloug Prize and the Aschehoug Prize in 2009 and the Bonnier Prize in 2024.
