Erik Fosnes Hansen Biography
Erik Fosnes Hansen was born on 6 June 1965 in New York and made his debut at age twenty with the novel Falketårnet. His best-known work is his second novel, Psalm at Journey’s End, which in separate but steadily more interwoven stories follows the individual musicians that end their careers and lives on the Titanic.
It has been translated into more than twenty languages. A sequel to Beretninger om beskyttelse (Tales of Protection) has been announced but is not yet completed. He has also published poetry and is a frequent contributor to contemporary public cultural discussions.
Erik Fosnes Hansen
Hansen is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.Fosnes Hansen was awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1990.
Hansen gained attention in the Norwegian press after throwing a piece of paper at a representative of the Progress Party during a heated debate on the radio station .
Erik Fosnes Hansen Wife
He married Erika Fatland,a writer and social anthropologist.
Erik Fosnes Hansen Bøker/Books
- Tales of Protection
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- Salme ved reisens slutt: Roman
- Psalm at Journey’s End by Erik Fosnes Hansen
- Falketarnet
- Beretninger om beskyttelse: Roman
- Underveis: Et portrett av Prinsesse Märtha Louise
- Music at the end of the journey
- Lovekvinnen
Løvekvinnen Erik Fosnes Hansen/The Lion Woman
His novel Løvekvinnen was published in 2006,it is a fabulous novel about loneliness, upbringing and the emergence of a unique and strong personality. a film adaptation was released in 2016. The film was a multinational project and had a budget of approximately NOK 52 million. Parts of the film were shot in Lillehammer, and the rest was recorded at various locations. The film’s premiere was on August 26, 2016 in Norwegian cinemas.It was awarded the Bookshop Prize 2006.
Løvekvinnen book
Eva Arctander is born in the same night the mother dies,she is a rarity that scares and fascinates. Nobody on site has seen or heard of anything similar to before. Her father, the station master, is good at keeping things hidden, not just his own feelings, but also his own child. But Eve, who lives behind a mask of complete disparity, eventually becomes a master in concealing things, both towards others and to themselves.
Erik Fosnes Beretninger Om Beskyttelse/Reports on protection 1
The book was released in 2009 as his third novel. Here the reader is presented for a bunch of dramatic stories, four independent reports of strange coincidences. Besides, there are both visible and invisible relationships between them, both in the theme and in action. It is a thorough and compelling novel by him. With musicality and elegance changes the perspective between the great story and the grandeur of the little one. The action is taking place in several countries to different historical times, with a nice fate pattern that weaves people, cultures and schedules together. Erik Fosnes Hansen received the Book Dealers Award for this book.
Reports on protection 1
It is such a rich and well-traveled text, with so many poetic sequences and dramatic appearances, so full of seriousness and smile, knowledge and imagination and elegant hints that it’s impossible not to be impressed with both the ambition and the ambition artistic design of the fabric.
Erik Fosnes Hansen Et/A Lobster Life
A lobster life was published in 2016.It is the many-faceted story, alternating between tragedy and comedy. It is about coming of age, reaching a bit further than you thought you could, understanding what you do not understand, and about the distance that can occur between people who love each other. Through Exquisitely drawn characters, he shows how self-deceit can be a means of survival and how we lie to ourselves and to others because being honest is more difficult. In this epic story the author gives us a unique portrayal of the time and a horrifying presentation of an unusual family.
Et Hummerliv
The book is about Sedd, a boy on the verge of adulthood, and about the hotel in the Norwegian mountains that is his home. He is put on a hard trial as he tries to blow life into a dying chief executive. Equipped with the Red Cross Relief Corps’ revival course, 14-year-old makes a heroic effort, but in no use. Perhaps the old bank manager’s death is the new time in the hotel Fåvnesheim, an old-fashioned high-mountain hotel with proud traditions, but now suffering from the fact that tourism is moving to ‘the infernal syllable’ that Sedd’s grandfather, the hotel director, usually says.
Erik Fosnes Hansen Falketårnet/Falk Tower
Falk Tower novel was first published in 1985 when he was nineteen years old, it was his debut novel. It is a breathtaking journey of time and humanity about the contrast between the high and the low, associated with good spiritual forces and evil earth forces, respectively.
Falketårnet book
The novel is about the young knight son Wolfgang von Falkenburg and his four hunting falconers,He is a very innocent and shy boy, who rarely says anything unless he has to,he has the ability to talk to the birds in “the silent language.” like a birdwatcher,it’s about Wolfgang’s love to the daughter’s daughter, the powerless uncle who wants both the boy’s death and who desires him.