Roy Jacobsen

Emerging from a working-class suburb of Oslo and a turbulent teenage period that included a stint in solitary confinement, Jacobsen turned to writing after years of varied jobs, publishing his first short-story collection in 1982. The debut earned the Tarjei Vesaas prize for newcomers and launched a prolific literary career marked by novels such as Seierherrene (1991), Frost (2003) and The Unseen… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources