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Born August 8, 1952 (age 72) • Oslo • Norway
Notable Works “Dukkeføreren” • “That Same Flower” • “The Castle in the Pyrenees” • “The Ringmaster’s Daughter” • “The Solitaire Mystery” • “Vita Brevis”
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø
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Fløgstad, Kjartan
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Kielland, Alexander Lange
Alexander Lange Kielland
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Johan Borgen
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Camilla Collett
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Hans E. Kinck.
Hans E. Kinck
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Dag Solstad
Norwegian writer
Tryggve Andersen
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A son of Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
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Rudyard Kipling
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The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Salman Rushdie, 2008
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Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle
Irish writer
John Grisham
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